NOUN
- a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
How To Use Elizabethan sonnet In A Sentence
- Less-is-more set design, it seems, had no fan in the Elizabethan sonneteer.
- His thin skin moved so rapidly between white and red it resembled the skin of the love object of some minor Elizabethan sonneteer. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
- The guru/speaker of Paramahansa Yogananda's "The Noble New" from Songs of the Soul offers eight loving commands to devotees in an octet that consists of two quatrains; the first quatrain features two riming couplets, and second quatrain has the traditional rime scheme of an Elizabethan sonnet, ABAB. Archive 2009-05-01
