SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg

Synonyms:

Elizabethan sonnet; English sonnet; Shakespearean sonnet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Shakespearean sonnet" is a kind of...):

sonnet (a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme)

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