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.
1 14 lines. 2  All sonnets have 14 lines which can be broken down into four sections called quatrains. 3  A strict rhyme scheme. 4  The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG (note the four distinct sections in the rhyme scheme). sonnet is simply a poem written in a certain format. You can identify a sonnet if the poem has the following characteristics: 1  14 lines. 2  All sonnets have 14 lines which can be broken down into four sections called quatrains.