petrarchan sonnet

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsItalian sonnet

   Broadersonnet

Questions about petrarchan sonnet

What does petrarchan sonnet mean?

petrarchan 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 petrarchan sonnet?

Close synonyms include Italian 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 petrarchan sonnet a common word?

petrarchan 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.