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ELEGIAC STANZA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elegiac stanza mean?
• ELEGIAC STANZA (noun)
The noun ELEGIAC STANZA has 1 sense:
1. a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme
Familiarity information: ELEGIAC STANZA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("elegiac stanza" is a kind of...):
quatrain (a stanza of four lines)
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