italian sonnet

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   a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd

   SynonymsPetrarchan sonnet

   Broadersonnet

Questions about italian sonnet

What does italian sonnet mean?

italian sonnet means "a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd".

What is another word for italian sonnet?

Close synonyms include Petrarchan 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 italian sonnet a common word?

italian 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.