Elizabethan sonnet

Other forms: Elizabethan sonnets

Definitions of Elizabethan sonnet
  1. noun
    a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
    synonyms: English sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet
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    type of:
    sonnet
    a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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