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heroic stanza
heroic stanza
noun
- poetry a quatrain having the rhyme scheme a b a b
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Word History and Origins
Origin of heroic stanza1
First recorded in 1920–25
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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.
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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.
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