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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.
The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word sonetto (from Old Provencal provenÃ§al sonet a little, poem from son, song From latin sonus a). Sound by the thirteenth century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific. structuree wrote almost 250 sonnets. Other Italian poets of the time, including Dante Alighieri (1265â1321) and Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1250â1300), wrote sonnets, but the most famous early sonneteer was Petrarca (known in English as Petrarch).