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English sonnet   /ˈɪŋglɪʃ sˈɑnɪt/   Listen
English sonnet

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






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... too concluded his sonnet with a couplet. This introduction of the final couplet was a violation of the Italian rule, which may be fairly considered as prejudicial to the harmony of the whole structure, and which has insensibly caused the English sonnet to terminate in an epigram. The famous sonnet of Surrey on his love, Geraldine, is an excellent example of the metrical structure as adapted to the supposed necessities of English rhyming, and as afterwards adhered to by Shakspere in his long series of love-poems. ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds



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