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.

From Washington Post

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

From Salon

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

From The Guardian

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

From Project Gutenberg

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. 

From Project Gutenberg