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单词 rhyme royal
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rhyme royal


noun Prosody.

a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.

Origin of rhyme royal

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby rhyme royal

rhumb line, rhumb sailing, rhus, rhyme, rhyme or reason, no, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhymester, rhyming slang, rhynchocephalian, rhynchophore
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Example sentences from the Web for rhyme royal

  • For, first, it stimulated curiosity regarding the use by this poet of the Chaucerian rhyme-royal in three of these long poems.

    Studies of Contemporary Poets|Mary C. Sturgeon

British Dictionary definitions for rhyme royal

rhyme royal

noun

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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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