English Madrigal
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic | | |
| Description: | | Three verses of iambic pentameter: a triplet, a quatrain,
and a sestet with the following rhyme and repetition scheme: AB1B2 abAB1 abbAB1B2. | | |
| Attributed to: | | Geoffrey Chaucer | | |
| Origin: | | English | | |
| Schematic: | | Rhyme and Repetition: AB1B2 abAB1 abbAB1B2
Meter: Iambic pentameter = xX xX xX xX xX
Rhyme alone: abb abab abbabb
Repetition alone: 123 xx12 xxx123 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 13 | | |
| See Also: | | Dryden's Roundelay, Iambic Pentameter, Italian Madrigal, Madrigal | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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