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rhyme royal

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a…

    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).

    • 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. A single stanza of this form.

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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA