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.
Stanzas. A stanza is the proper name for what is more commonly known as a verse. (Confusingly, to prosodists the word verse seems often to mean what you and I would, in our ignorance, call a line.). Many standard verse forms consist of several similarly-structured stanzas. 5-line stanza of any kind can be called a quintain, a quintet, or a cinquain. However, the word cinquain is also used both for a particular verse form of French origin, and for a particular syllable-counting form (of no great merit or interest, as far as I can see).