Pushkin Sonnet

The Pushkin Sonnet (also known as the Onegin Stanza) is a variation on the sonnet form created and named after Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, originating in his 1825-1832 verse novel Eugene Onegin.

The variant is composed in iambic tetrameter with the rhyme-schemes A-b-A-b-C-C-d-d-E-f-f-E-g-g, where the uppercase letters represent feminine rhymes while the lowercase letters represent masculine rhymes.