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Romantic stanza
| Type: |  | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic |  |  |  | Description: |  | Alternating quatrains of basically dactylic meter where
lines one and three have eleven syllables, line two has ten, and line four is the first seven syllables of line one. |  |  |  | Attributed to: |  | Maksim Bahdanovic, stanza so named by Bob
Newman |  |  |  | Origin: |  | Belarus |  |  |  | Schematic: |  | Rhyme: (Ba)baB
Meter:
Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx
Xxx Xxx Xxx X
Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx
Xxx Xxx X |  |  |  | Starting Point: |  | With each quatrain, start with the first/last line,
since that line establishes your rhymes. |  |  |  | Rhythm/Stanza Length: |  | 4 |  |  |  | Reference: |  | Reference Link |  |  |  | See Also: |  | Alternating Quatrain, Dactyl, Epyllion, Rondeau, Rondeau Prime, Serpentine Verses, Terzanelle |  |  |  | Status: |  | Incomplete |  |  |  |