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Noun: English sonnet  'ing-glish'só-nit
  1. A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
    - Shakespearean sonnet, Elizabethan sonnet

Derived forms: English sonnets

Type of: sonnet

Encyclopedia: English sonnet