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 | |
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