Plate Tectonics. The concept that describes and explains how the most significant features on the Earth's surface are produced by processes within the Earth when it acts units at the Earth's surface called plates. As a result, the plates to move around, and change in size and number over time.
The noun SPENSERIAN SONNET has 1 sense: 1. a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee. Familiarity information: SPENSERIAN SONNET used as a noun is very rare. Dictionary entry details. â¢ SPENSERIAN SONNET (noun).
Originating in Italy, the sonnet was established by Petrarch in the 14th century as a major form of love poetry, and came to be adopted in Spain, France and England in the 16th century, and in Germany in the 17th.n important variant of this is the Spenserian sonnet (introduced by the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser), which links the three quatrains by rhyme, in the sequence ababbabccdcdee. In either form, the 'turn' comes with the final couplet, which may sometimes achieve the neatness of an epigram.