Elizabethan sonnet

noun

1. another term for Shakespearean sonnet

Example Sentences

While we hoped that meant all new answers this time around, several Losers made the same “compare thee to a Summer’s Eve” joke for “an Elizabethan sonnet” as the one that got ink in 2010.

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Elizabethan sonnets are like fantastically complex little puzzle boxes made of words, crammed with extended conceits, puns, double meanings, shifting authorial personas and more.

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A fiery keepsake, condensing portrait and love poem, it's the equivalent of an Elizabethan sonnet.

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This continuation completes briefly the analysis of Elizabethan satire and discusses the Elizabethan sonnet.

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A strain of personal emotion is occasionally discernible in a detached effort, and is vaguely traceable in a few sequences; but autobiographical confessions were very rarely the stuff of which the Elizabethan sonnet was made. 

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