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

Derived forms: Shakespearean sonnets

Type of: sonnet

Encyclopedia: Shakespearean sonnet

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