elegiac stanza

noun

1. a four-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming alternately.

elegiac stanza

noun

1. prosody a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming

Example Sentences

They possess a characteristic grace, which can never belong to three elegiac stanzas, closing with a couplet.”

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We are much afraid that the tendency of the present age towards the facetious has contributed not a little to the dearth of sonnets and the extermination of the elegiac stanza.

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I wrapped it in paper in which a few elegiac stanzas were inscribed in my own hand, and with my utmost elegance of penmanship.

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I am very merry, and have just been writing some elegiac stanzas on the death of Sir P. Parker.

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A quatrain consisting of iambic pentameter verse with alternate rhymes is called an elegiac stanza.

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