Spenserian sonnet

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noun

a sonnet employing the rhyme scheme abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.

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How to use Spenserian sonnet in a sentence

Is it possible to follow up a school-shooting episode with lines from Sonnet 116?
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Your character in Wit seeks strength in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, especially his Holy Sonnet 10, “Death Be Not Proud.”
Cynthia Nixon on Bisexuality & Her New Role in ‘Wit’|Kevin Sessums|January 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The new book celebrates the sonnet's uneven return to grace.
The Best of Brit Lit|Peter Stothard|June 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The sonnet is a sort of poetical fugue in which the theme ought to pass and repass until its final resolution in a given form.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life|Thophile Gautier

One man wrote a sonnet to the woman, verses in her honor, telling about her beautiful eyes.
Tiger Cat|David H. Keller
The principal classes of lyric poetry are the song, the ode, the elegy, and the sonnet.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
A sonnet is a lyric that deals with a single thought, idea, or sentiment in a fixed metrical form.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
As Mr. Rossetti has noted in an exquisite sonnet, his mind remained always at liberty.
Sir Walter Ralegh|William Stebbing

British Dictionary definitions for Spenserian sonnet

Spenserian sonnet

noun

prosody a sonnet form used by the poet Spenser having the rhyme scheme a b a b b c b c c d c d e e

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