Assertion: sonnet's volta | /r/HasProperty | the turn
Facets:
value: in a sonnet
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Additionally, Levin states that "the arrangement of lines into patterns of sound serves a function we could call architectural, for these various acoustical partitions accentuate the element that gives the sonnet its unique force and character: the volta, the 'turn' that introduces into the poem a possibility for transformation, like a moment of grace".
text: Often, at the end of the third quatrain occurs the volta ("turn"), where the mood of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a turn of thought.
text: In a sonnet, a volta is the turn, or the moment where the poet shifts his topic.