Shakespearean sonnet

Shakespearean sonnet

noun
a sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
Also called English sonnet, Elizabethan sonnet.


Origin:
1900–05
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Shakespearean sonnet
 
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Elizabethan sonnet, Also called: English sonnet 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

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