Rhyme royal (or rime royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced to English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. The form enjoyed significant success in...

to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea...

the repeated consonant sound opens the stressed syllable. Head rhyme or initial rhyme involves the creation of alliterative phrases where each word literally...

influence is rhyme royal, a traditional medieval form used by Geoffrey Chaucer and others, which has seven lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme ABABBCC. More...

In poetry, a couplet is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal...

14th century English epic poems were written in heroic couplets, and rhyme royal, though in the 16th century the Spenserian stanza and blank verse were...

of each line is iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme for each stanza is ABABBCC, a format known as "rhyme royal", which has been used by Geoffrey Chaucer...

celestial spheres that it evokes. The Kingis Quair uses the Chaucerian rhyme scheme rhyme royal: ABABBCC. The form was once thought to have been named for James...

stanza Chaucer, Geoffrey Troilus and Criseyde 1380 c. 1380 8,239 lines Rhyme royal Anonymous Cleanness 14th century 1,813 lines alliterative verse Clough...

approximately 700 lines. The poem, which is in the form of a dream vision in rhyme royal stanza, contains one of the earliest references to the idea that St....

Anglo-Saxon metre. Chaucer is known for metrical innovation, inventing the rhyme royal, and he was one of the first English poets to use the five-stress line...

"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have barely changed in two...

the tales (the Man of Law's, Clerk's, Prioress', and Second Nun's) use rhyme royal. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of the Peace...

composed of nine books and some 36 thousand lines. It is made up of rhyme royal stanzas: Out of her swoone when she did abbraide, Knowing no mean but...

"They flee from me" is a poem written by Thomas Wyatt. It is written in rhyme royal and was included in Arthur Quiller-Couch's edition of the Oxford Book...

professionally as Busta Rhymes, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the moniker Busta Rhymes, after NFL...

Tail rhyme is a family of stanzaic verse forms used in poetry in French and especially English during and since the Middle Ages, and probably derived...

Shakespeare's sonnets observe the stylistic form of the English sonnet—the rhyme scheme, the 14 lines, and the metre. But, Shakespeare's sonnets introduce...

recounted in the text. Isopes Fabules was written in Middle English rhyme royal stanzas by the monk John Lydgate towards the start of the 15th century...

with a rhyme scheme of "abababcc." Quatorzain Quatrain: a 4-line poem or stanza Quintain Rhyme royal: a stanza of seven 10-syllable lines, rhyming "ababbcc...

certainly would not to speak of it to the living.' The poem is written in rhyme royal, a seven-line stanzaic form that was popular in the Middle Ages. Dancing...

stanza forms, the rhyme royal used by Chaucer, with the rhyme pattern ABABBCC, and the ottava rima, which originated in Italy, with the rhyme pattern ABABABCC...

William Morris used rhyme royal, heroic couplet or iambic tetrameter. This is an example of seven-line rhyme royal (with rhyme scheme ABABBCC). O love...

ode and chant royal. Some ballades have five stanzas. A seven-line ballade, or ballade royal, consists of four stanzas of rhyme royal, all using the...

"Hush-a-bye baby on the tree top") is a nursery rhyme and lullaby. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 2768. The rhyme exists in several versions. One modern...

A Wizard in Rhyme is a series of fantasy novels by American writer Christopher Stasheff. The series follows the character of Matthew Mantrell, an English...

Rosie", or (in the United States) "Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing game. Descriptions first emerge in the...

in Two Volumes. The poem contains twenty stanzas written in modified rhyme royal, and describes Wordsworth’s encounter with a leech-gatherer near his...

Benoît and Guido. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, a poem in rhyme royal telling a tragic love story set during the war; derived from the above...

Apollo. Thomas Heywood wrote the epyllion Oenone and Paris (1594) in rhyme royal. William Morris included "The Death of Paris" in The Earthly Paradise...