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Definition of Shakespearean 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 Shakespearean sonnet
1. Noun. A sonnet comprising of three quatrains and a final couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of ''abab cdcd efef gg''. The third type of sonnet. Also known as Elizabethan sonnet and English sonnet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shakespearean Sonnet
Literary usage of Shakespearean sonnet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies and Appreciations by William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1912)
"A shakespearean sonnet is better than the most perfect in form, because Shakespeare
wrote it." In confirmation of this dictum of Rossetti, I quote the words ..."
2. Studies and Appreciations by William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1912)
".A shakespearean sonnet is better than the most perfect in form, because Shakespeare
wrote it." In confirmation of this dictum of Rossetti, ..."
3. Representative Sonnets by American Poets: With an Essay on the Sonnet, Its by Charles Henry Crandall (1890)
"... and wrote either all on two rhymes, except the ending couplet, or else in the
form generally known as the " English" or shakespearean sonnet. ..."
4. Representative Sonnets by American Poets: With an Essay on the Sonnet, Its by Charles Henry Crandall (1890)
"Here is one of Surrey's sonnets, and it deserves attention because we now first
strike the " Shakespearean " sonnet in literature. ..."
5. Forms of English Poetry by Charles Frederick Johnson (1904)
"The Irregular or shakespearean sonnet The sonnet form was introduced into English
verse early in the sixteenth century by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, ..."
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