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Elizabethan sonnet

DEFINITIONS OF: Elizabethan sonnet

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n 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
Type of:
sonnet
a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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