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A slant Sonnet is not an actual sonnet, but a rhyme scheme of a sonnet.

A rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean Sonnet is ABABCDCDEFEFGG.

This means that every other line (ABAB) will rhyme.

A slant rhyme though deviates from this slightly. While you are still rhyming, the sounds of the two rhyming words may sound different.

Ex from Shakespere's Sonnet 18: "Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / And summer's lease has all too short a date:"

The words Temperate and Date rhyme, but you can tell that they don't rhyme 100%.

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