| 单词 | ballade royal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasballade royal 2. ballade royal: (originally) = sense 1a; (later spec.) verse consisting of seven or eight ten-syllable lines rhymed ababbcc or ababbcbc (cf. rhyme royal n., rhythm royal n.).Formerly believed to originate in the fact that King James I of Scotland composed the Kingis Quair in seven-line stanzas of this kind. This assumption is probably unfounded, but may have helped perpetuate the term's use for the specific form. The sense of royal in early quots. is probably that of royal adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > rhyme royal ballade royala1450 metre royal1548 rhythm royal1575 rhyme royal1827 a1450 Quixley's Ballades in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. (1908) 20 6 Gower it [sc. Traitié] made in frenshe with grete studie In balades ryale. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton 2 Ful craftly hath made it in balade ryal. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxvv I haue therfore set them out in Baladde Royall. 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Miijv This kynde of verse following, callit Ballat Royal. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. 237 He allows, that some of Lydgate's successors had been skilful versifiers in the balade royall or octave stanza. 1909 Mod. Lang. Notes 24 31/2 A mere guess of some scholar..that rhyme royal, or ballade royal, owes its name to the fact that King James I of Scotland..wrote The Kingis Quair in that metre. 1995 Mod. Philol. 93 155 This beautiful and noble ballade royale. < as lemmas |
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