Definitions of Shakespearean sonnet
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a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef ggsynonyms: Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnettype of:sonneta verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
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