The weather forecast calls for some sort of frozen precipitation tomorrowâeither snow or sleet. a 50 percent chance of precipitation Minerals are separated from the seawater by precipitation.
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 Sonnet / Italian Poetry. The Petrarchan Sonnet, also called the Italian Sonnet is one of the two dominant sonnet forms, the other being the English or Shakespearean sonnet.Both have weathered the corruption of time. The Petrarchan Sonnet came on the heels of the first sonnet form, the Sicilian Sonnet which is rarely seen in today's literature. a single quatorzain made up of an octave followed by a sestet. 2  composed with the octave presenting an idea, problem or question, followed by a sestet finding the solution or resolution. 3  metered, iambic pentameter.