单词 | rhythm royal |
释义 | rhythm royaln. Now rare. = rhyme royal n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > rhyme royal ballade royala1450 metre royal1548 rhythm royal1575 rhyme royal1827 1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. U.jv Rythme royall is a verse of tenne sillables, and seuen such verses make a staffe [etc.]... This hath bene called Rithme royall, & surely it is a royall kinde of verse, seruing best for graue discourses. 1804 W. Godwin Life Chaucer (ed. 2) II. xxi. 172 The Parliament of Birds..is written in Rhythm Royal, the same species of stanza as that of the Court of Love and the Troilus and Creseide. 1836 R. Southey Life Cowper in W. Cowper Wks. II. xxii. 115 The ‘Troilus verse’, as King James called it, obtained the dignified title of Rhythm Royal. 1893 Mod. Lang. Notes 8 443 Chaucer's seven-line stanza, the well-known Rime-Royal, should not be called the ‘Rhythm Royal’ (p. 38). If a new name were admissible, ‘Stanza Royal’ would be the better term. 1917 Poetry Jan. 207 Her form, whether it be rhythm royal or polyphonic prose, is in danger of becoming too formal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1575 |
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