What’s an Eliz. sonnet?

Elizabethan sonnets were popular during Queen Elizabeth I’s reign in England and were used in many of Shakespeare’s works. They have 14 lines and two main rhyming schemes. The Italian form has an octave and a sextet, while the English version has three quatrains and a couplet. Over 300,000 Elizabethan sonnets were written in Europe […]

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