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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.
Definition of a Sonnet. The sonnet is a traditional poetic form. There are two basic types of sonnet: the English sonnet, also called the Shakespearean sonnet, and the Italian sonnet, also called the Petrarchan sonnet. Both of these types of sonnet have 14 lines, so what distinguishes them is how the sections are broken up and how the poem rhymes.