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A crown of sonnets is a sequence of seven sonnets, usually addressed to some one person, and concerned with a single theme.
Each of the sonnets explores one aspect of the theme, and is linked to the preceding and succeeding sonnets by repeating the final line of the preceding sonnet as its first line, and by having its final line be the first line of the succeeding sonnet. The first line of the first sonnet is repeated as the final line of the final sonnet, thereby bringing the sequence to a close.
A famous example is John Donne's Holy Sonnets.
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