rhyme royal

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rhyme royal

n.
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

n
(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


n.
a verse form consisting of seven-line stanzas in iambic pentameter, rhyming ababbcc.
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Noun1.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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Edwards suggested that the second version of Hardyng's Chronicle does not exist in anything like a 'stable form',(3) and hinted that it might not be 'in any final sense editable'.(4) Edwards reached this conclusion after discovering that the eleven manuscripts he examined disagreed vigorously with one another and were usually deficient at certain moments of what could be called textual stress at the third b rhyme of the rime royale stanza, for example?
An early paper copy of John Hardyng's 'Chronicle.' (15th century English author)

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