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Spenserian sonnet

–noun
a sonnet employing the rhyme scheme abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
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Spenserian sonnet  
n.  A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
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