Elizabethan sonnet and English sonnet

Elizabethan sonnet

Elizabethan sonnet noun - A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.

English sonnet and Elizabethan sonnet are semantically related. In some cases you can use "English sonnet" instead a noun phrase "Elizabethan sonnet".

English sonnet

English sonnet noun - A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg.
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Elizabethan sonnet and English sonnet are semantically related. You can use "Elizabethan sonnet" instead a noun phrase "English sonnet".
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