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But Smith says they are fundamentally a “formalist”, who loves to “geek out” over sonnet crowns and voltas.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2020

As the scholar Roland Greene writes, although the sonnet was “practically a technology for representing voltas or turns of all psychic sorts,” Lock’s cycle “refuses invention to a degree almost unprecedented at the time.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019

The roundels include cartas, motes, voltas, cantigas, trovas, pastorals and endechas.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various