Chant Royal
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic | | |
| Description: | | This is the 500 pound gorilla of the ballade family. It
has five eleven-line verses with a five line envoy turning on five rhymes. | | |
| Origin: | | French | | |
| Schematic: | | ababccddedE
ababccddedE
ababccddedE
ababccddedE
ababccddedE
ddedE
Where E is the refrain. Like the rest of the family, no
rhyme word is to be repeated.
There may be a variation:
ababccddedE
ababccddedE
ababccddedE
ababccddedE
ababccddedE
ddeddedE. | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 11 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 60 | | |
| See Also: | | Ballade, Ballade Supreme, Chanso, Double Chant Royal, Double Refrain Chant Royal, Envoy | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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