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Shakespearean sonnet

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Shakespearean sonnet
n.
The sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Also called Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet.
Shakespearean sonnet
n
(Literature / Poetry) a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g Also called Elizabethan sonnet English sonnet
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Noun1.Shakespearean sonnet - a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet
sonnet - a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme


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