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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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