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Rhyme royal (or rime
royal) is a
rhyming stanza form that was
introduced to
English poetry by
Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjo****
significant success in...
- to
indicate which lines rhyme;
lines designated with the same
letter all
rhyme with each other. An
example of the ABAB
rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea...
- the
repeated consonant sound opens the
stressed syllable. Head
rhyme or
initial rhyme involves the
creation of
alliterative phrases where each word literally...
- Tail
rhyme is a
family of
stanzaic verse forms used in
poetry in
French and
especially English during and
since the
Middle Ages, and
probably derived...
- with
rhyme Lydgate, John The Fall of the
Princes 1431-1439 36,365
lines rhyme royal Lydgate, John
Siege of
Thebes 1420-1422 4,716
lines rhyme royal Lydgate...
- In poetry, a
couplet or
distich is a pair of
successive lines that
rhyme and have the same metre. A
couplet may be
formal (closed) or run-on (open). In...
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influence is
rhyme royal, a
traditional medieval form used by
Geoffrey Chaucer and others,
which has
seven lines of
iambic pentameter that
rhyme ABABBCC. The...
- Anglo-Saxon metre.
Chaucer is
known for
metrical innovation,
inventing the
rhyme royal, and he was one of the
first English poets to use the five-stress line...
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approximately 700 lines. The poem,
which is in the form of a
dream vision in
rhyme royal stanza,
contains one of the
earliest references to the idea that St....
- of each line is
iambic pentameter. The
rhyme scheme for each
stanza is ABABBCC, a
format known as "
rhyme royal",
which was used by
Geoffrey Chaucer before...
