Usually means: Fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, rhyme.
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  1. Shakespearean sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet: Merriam-Webster
  2. Shakespearean sonnet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Shakespearean sonnet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Shakespearean sonnet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Shakespearean sonnet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shakespearean sonnet: Wiktionary
  7. Shakespearean sonnet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. Shakespearean sonnet: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. shakespearean sonnet: Dictionary.com
  10. Shakespearean sonnet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Shakespearean sonnet: Rhymezone
  12. shakespearean sonnet: FreeDictionary.org
  13. shakespearean sonnet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Shakespearean sonnet: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shakespearean sonnet)

noun:  (poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains and a final couplet, in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

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