The weather forecast calls for some sort of frozen precipitation tomorrowâeither snow or sleet. a 50 percent chance of precipitation Minerals are separated from the seawater by precipitation.
1. (Poetry) a sonnet form developed in 16th-century England and employed by Shakespeare, having the rhyme scheme a b a b c d c d e f e f g g.Also called: Elizabethan sonnet or English sonnet.hakespearean sonnet-a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet. sonnet-a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.
As you might guess, the Petrarchan sonnet is named after a 14th century Italian poet named Francesco Petrarch. He is known for his poems about Laura, with whom he fell hopelessly in love upon first sight of her in a church. Beautiful and worthy, Laura was married and therefore off limits to Petrarch.