rhyme royal
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Etymology
This term was reportedly first used in the mid-1800s.
Noun
rhyme royal (countable and uncountable, plural rhymes royal)
- (uncountable, poetry) 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).
- 1898, Henry Augustin Beers, chapter 10, in 18th Century: A History of English Romanticism:
- 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.
- (countable, poetry) A single stanza of this form.
- 1938 Jan, H. S. V. Jones, “Brief Mention”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 37, number 1, page 126:
- 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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- “rhyme royal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.