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Shakespearean sonnet

 
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–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  
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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