1. a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd; [syn: Petrarchan sonnet, Italian sonnet]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Italian sonnet
n 1: a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern
abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern
cdecde or cdcdcd [syn: Petrarchan sonnet, Italian
sonnet]