elegiac stanza

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• elegiac stanza — a four line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming alternately. Also called heroic stanza. * * * ▪ poetry       in poetry, a quatrain in iambic pentameter (iamb) with alternate lines rhyming. Though the older and more general term for this is heroic… …   Universalium

• elegiac stanza — noun a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme • Hypernyms: ↑quatrain …   Useful english dictionary

• heroic stanza. — See elegiac stanza. [1920 25] * * * …   Universalium

• heroic stanza — ▪ poetry also called  heroic quatrain        in poetry, a rhymed quatrain in heroic verse with rhyme scheme abab. The form was used by William Shakespeare and John Dryden, among others, and was also called an elegiac stanza after the publication… …   Universalium

• heroic stanza. — See elegiac stanza. [1920 25] …   Useful english dictionary

• elegiacstanza — elegiac stanza n. A four line stanza in iambic pentameter rhyming on alternate lines. * * * …   Universalium

• Quatrain — A quatrain is a poem, or a stanza within a poem, that consists always of four lines. It is the most common of all stanza forms in African poetry. The rhyming patterns include abb, abab, abba, abcb. In its narrow meaning, the term is restricted to …   Wikipedia

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