SPENSERIAN SONNET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spenserian sonnet mean? 

• SPENSERIAN SONNET (noun)
  The noun SPENSERIAN SONNET has 1 sense:

1. a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee

  Familiarity information: SPENSERIAN SONNET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPENSERIAN SONNET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Spenserian sonnet" is a kind of...):

sonnet (a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme)