heroic stanza

American  

noun

1. elegiac stanza.

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heroic stanza British  

noun

1. poetry a quatrain having the rhyme scheme a b a b

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Etymology

Origin of heroic stanza

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

After this effort Dryden seems to have lain fallow for ten years, and then he at length reappears in thirty-seven "heroic stanzas" on the death of Cromwell.

From Project Gutenberg

Like most of his poems, it is written in an heroic stanza of six lines, and, as is not so common with him, is in dialogue form.

From Project Gutenberg

The choriambic I thought might be exchanged for a heroic stanza, in which the first line should rhyme with the fourth, the second with the third, a kind of "In Memoriam" elongated.

From Project Gutenberg