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1. (Poetry) a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g.Also called: Elizabethan sonnet or English sonnet.hakespearean sonnet-a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet. sonnet-a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.
A Petrarchian sonnet is comprised of an octet (8 lines) followed by a sestet (6 lines), all written in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme can vary, but it is generally abbaabba in the octet, and either cdecde, cdcdcd, or cdcdee for the sestet.The Spensarian sonnet has an interlocking rhyme scheme of abab,bcbc,cdcd,ee.he Shakespearean sonnet has three quartets and a couplet, and a rhyme scheme of abab,cdcd,efef,gg. The sonnet you will most often see when you study literature in a high school English class is the Shakespearean sonnet.