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RHYME ROYAL
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I. (noun)
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)