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The Elizabethan sonnet is also called the English or Shakespearean sonnet. The Elizabethan sonnet tends to contain messages of love (similar to the Petrarchan sonnet).

The Elizabethan sonnet contains fourteen lines. These lines are broken into four stanzas. Three stanzas are quatrains (contain four lines) and one is a couplet (contains two lines).

The rhyme scheme of the Elizabethan sonnet is as follows: abab cdcd efef gg. This means that the first/third and second/fourth lines...

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