His innovation is similar to the Shakespearean sonnet, retaining the 14-line stanza with three quatrains plus couplet structure but Pushkin made it distinct in two ways ( Remnyova M.
They could be written in blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) or complex stanza forms, including terza rima (ABA BCB CDC etc.) and ottava rima (ABABABCC), but the stanza most specifically associated with the modern verse novel is the “Onegin stanza” or “Pushkin Sonnet”, invented by Pushkin in his iconic Lyrical-Epic entitled “Eugene Onegin”. The earlier long classical verse narratives had no specific versification or any prescribed meter. These works employ an informal, colloquial register. The Genre “Verse Novel” is a distinct modern form of the verse narratives with the major verse novels of the beginning of 19th century being Byron's “Don Juan” (1818–24), “Eugene Onegin” (1831) by Alexander Pushkin and “Pan Tadeusz” (1834) by Adam Mickiewicz.
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