A type of sonnet much used by Shakespeare, written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.
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In the Elizabethan sonnet do you know if there is a metre in the poem?
A whole generation-more than a quarter of a century-separated the final sonneteering efforts of Surrey and Wyatt from the birth of the Elizabethan sonnet.
Such may well be considered a commonplace of the study of poetry, the usual and best way of reading an Elizabethan sonnet, or Keats or Hardy aside from the journalistic or subjectivising option.
Definition of Elizabethan sonnet in US English:
Elizabethan sonnet
noun
A type of sonnet much used by Shakespeare, written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.
Example sentencesExamples
A whole generation-more than a quarter of a century-separated the final sonneteering efforts of Surrey and Wyatt from the birth of the Elizabethan sonnet.
Such may well be considered a commonplace of the study of poetry, the usual and best way of reading an Elizabethan sonnet, or Keats or Hardy aside from the journalistic or subjectivising option.
In the Elizabethan sonnet do you know if there is a metre in the poem?