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Elizabethan sonnet |
see "Shakespearean sonnet." |
English sonnet |
see "Shakespearean sonnet." |
Italian sonnet |
a Petrarchan sonnet. |
octave |
an eight-line stanza of poetry, or the first eight lines of a Italian sonnet. (Cf. sestet.) [1/5 definitions] |
Petrarchan sonnet |
an Italian sonnet form made popular by Petrarch, consisting of an octave and a sestet. (Cf. Shakespearean sonnet.) |
sestet |
the group of six lines that forms the second stanza of an Italian sonnet. (Cf. octave.) |
Shakespearean sonnet |
a sonnet form in which three quatrains are followed by a final rhyming couplet. |
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