ITALIAN SONNET


Meaning of ITALIAN SONNET in English

[Italian sonnet] n (1879): a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (as cde cde or cdc dcd)--called also Petrarchan sonnet

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