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Hudibrastics

Type:  

Structure, Style, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic

 
Description: 

Couplets humorously rhymed, irregular tetrameter lines.

 
Schematic: 
Perfect iambic tetrameter would be:

xX xX xX xA
xX xX xX xA

Obviously, it can be looser.
 
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 

2

 
Status: 

Incomplete

 
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