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rhyme royal

1. A form of verse having stanzas with seven lines in iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc.

2. One of these stanzas.

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rhyme royal

(Poetry) prosody a stanzaic form introduced into English verse by Chaucer, consisting of seven lines of iambic pentameter rhyming a b a b b c c

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rhyme′ roy′al

a verse form consisting of seven-line stanzas in iambic pentameter, rhyming ababbcc.

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rhyme royal - a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer

stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

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She evidently possessed a mature and disciplined appreciation of the possibilities afforded by different poetic forms, and, if her matter is not very varied, she nevertheless not only shows herself to be fully in command of rime royal, the verse form of the book's opening 'Preface' and 'Discourse', but also keenly appreciative of the potential of iambic lines of varied length.

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The ratio 6 : 1 can be found in sonnets with a final couplet, and this suggests the six days of Creation fulfilled in the Sabbath, as indeed does the seven-line stanza of rime royal. Heninger blithely admits in a footnote (p.