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English sonnet

noun

A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Synonyms: Elizabethan sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet.

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... one of the four greatest English sonnet writers. Shakespeare alone surpasses him in this field. Milton numbers among his pupils Wordsworth and Keats, whose ...

— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

Words linked to "English sonnet" : Elizabethan sonnet, sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet