Meaning of rhyme royal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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).
   uncountable
2. A single stanza of this form.
   countable

Examples

“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.”

“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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