sonnet : Idioms & Phrases


elizabethan sonnet

  • noun a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
    English sonnet; Elizabethan sonnet.
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english sonnet

  • noun a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
    English sonnet; Elizabethan sonnet.
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italian sonnet

  • noun a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
    Italian sonnet.
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petrarchan sonnet

  • noun a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
    Italian sonnet.
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shakespearean sonnet

  • noun a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
    English sonnet; Elizabethan sonnet.
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spenserian sonnet

  • noun a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee
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