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Definition of Elizabethan sonnet
1. Noun. A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.
Definition of Elizabethan sonnet
1. Noun. A Shakespearean sonnet ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elizabethan Sonnet
Literary usage of Elizabethan sonnet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1910)
"Elizabethan sonnet sequences fall naturally into certain well-defined groups.
The majority are devoted to the celebration of the passion of love: some, ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by David Patrick, Robert Chambers (1901)
"The Elizabethan sonnet-Cycles. The sonnet is a species of lyrical poetry which
the world owes to the instinct of the Italians for delicate and harmonious ..."
3. The French Influence in English Literature from the Accession of Elizabeth by Alfred Horatio Upham (1908)
"CHAPTER III THE Elizabethan sonnet IN the list of new genres prescribed for French
poets in the manifesto of the ..."
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