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Rhyme royal

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400). uncountable

    "Perhaps the most engaging of the Rowley poems are "An Excelente Balade of Charitie," written in the rhyme royal; and "The Bristowe Tragedie," in the common ballad stanza."

  2. 2
    a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer wordnet
  3. 3
    A single stanza of this form. countable

    "Chaucer for years before the Prologue to LGW had been writing heroic couplets at the close of each of his rhymes royal."

Etymology

This term was reportedly first used in the mid-1800s.

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