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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.
Petrarchan sonnet: this is the original sonnet form, which came from Italy and was brought into England by two guys named Wyatt and Surrey, whose sonnets are almost translations of the original Italian ones written by an Italian poet named Petrarch, who really championed the form.he Shakespearean (also called an English) sonnet is composed of four quatrains (of four lines each) and a concluding couplet (two lines). The rhyme scheme is as follows: abab cdcd efef gg. Each quatrain serves to develop an element or a facet of the problem.