elizabethan sonnet

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsShakespearean sonnetEnglish sonnet

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Questions about elizabethan sonnet

What does elizabethan sonnet mean?

elizabethan sonnet means "a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg".

What is another word for elizabethan sonnet?

Close synonyms include Shakespearean sonnet, English sonnet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elizabethan sonnet a common word?

elizabethan sonnet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.