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English sonnet

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English sonnet
n.
See Shakespearean sonnet.
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Noun1.English sonnet - a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
Elizabethan sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet
sonnet - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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3) Jennifer Ann Wagner, A Moment's Monument: Revisionary Poetics and the Nineteenth-Century English Sonnet (London: Associated University Presses, 1996), pp.
The Victorian sonnet, from George Meredith to Gerard Manley Hopkins by Regan, Stephen / Yearbook of English Studies
The sequence's content includes Carper as narrator both identifying with and separating himself from the Japanese poet, this duality being reflected structurally in the sequence's individual sections, each of which is a combination of Carper's hallmark English sonnet followed by a modified haiku.
Thomas Carper: miniaturist of the grand scale by Corrie, Daniel / Modern Age
In mid-1537, while under a form of house-arrest at Windsor, Surrey invented the English sonnet form and heroic quatrain when he wrote of his sense of loss in Fitzroy's death and England's loss in the decay of its aristocracy.
Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life by BRADDOCK, ROBERT C. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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