elizabethan sonnet in English
noun
1
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.
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.
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1. Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti is one of the greatest of the Elizabethan sonnet sequences; after Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella (which was the first great sonnet sequence in English), it is perhaps the greatest of all