Rhyme Royal Definition
noun
A stanza of seven lines in iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc, first used in English by Chaucer.
Webster's New World
One of these stanzas.
American Heritage
Other Word Forms of Rhyme Royal
Noun
Singular:
rhyme royal
Plural:
rhymes royalOrigin of Rhyme Royal
This term was reportedly first used in the mid-1800s.
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