stanza : Idioms & Phrases
elegiac stanza
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noun a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme
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heroic stanza
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noun a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab
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spenserian stanza
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noun a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c
- the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene