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RHYME ROYAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rhyme royal mean?
• RHYME ROYAL (noun)
The noun RHYME ROYAL has 1 sense:
1. a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer
Familiarity information: RHYME ROYAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("rhyme royal" is a kind of...):
stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)
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