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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.