rhyme royal

English

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

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, 18th Century: A History of English Romanticism, ch. 10:
  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, H. S. V. Jones, "Brief Mention," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 37, no. 1 (Jan.), p. 126:
  Chaucer for years before the Prologue to LGW had been writing heroic couplets at the close of each of his rhymes royal.

单词	rhyme royal
释义	rhyme royal English Alternative forms rime royal 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, 18th Century: A History of English Romanticism, ch. 10: 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, H. S. V. Jones, "Brief Mention," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 37, no. 1 (Jan.), p. 126: Chaucer for years before the Prologue to LGW had been writing heroic couplets at the close of each of his rhymes royal. References rhyme royal at OneLook Dictionary Search
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