10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RHYME ROYAL»
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The Yale Companion to Chaucer
Chaucer's use of rhyme royal, with its seven lines of iambic pentameter, in the
Parliament of Fowls is an important example of this mixed style. Chaucer used
rhyme royal for the first time in the Parliament of Fowls. Inspired by Boccaccio's
ottava ...
The earliest of these narrative stanzas is the so-called rhyme royal. RHYME
ROYAL The rhyme scheme of rhyme royal is ababbcc5. Literary legend attributes
the name of the stanza to royal use by James I of Scotland in The King's Quair ("
The ...
Sara DeFord, Clarinda H. Lott, 1940
3
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
See also alliteration; ASSONANCE; CONSONANCE; POETRY. rhymer or rimer
Yri-mar \ One who makes rhymes, a versifier; specifically, a mediocre poet. rhyme
royal or rime royal \'rim-'r6i-9l \ plural rhyme royals. A stanza of seven lines in ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1995
This classic and eminently readable work provides a full critical introduction to the complete Canterbury Tales. Essential reading for students of Chaucer.
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The rhyme scheme of rhyme royal, with its medial bb *couplet, means that the first
*quatrain, in alternating rhymes, ends with a line (line ) which is also the first
line of that medial couplet (lines –). Readers might experience this overlap as
...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
6
The Floure and the Leafe: And, The Assembly of Ladies
FORM AND STYLE Both FL and AL are written in the seven-line stanza, rhyming
ababbcc, known as Rhyme Royal. The origin of this term was for long fancifully
associated with the use of the stanza by King James I of Scotland in the Kingis ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Derek Albert Pearsall, 1980
7
Chaucer's Religious Tales
This conjunction of formal prayer with rhyme royal is one of the utmost
importance for each of the four tales we are about to consider.3 Some time ago,
Martin Stevens argued that the seven-line stanza called rhyme royal was
connected in late ...
C. David Benson, Elizabeth Ann Robertson, 1990
8
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Rhyme Royal Rhyme Royal has a noble history From Geoffrey Chaucer to the
present day Its secret is no hidden mystery: Iambic feet, the classic English way
With b and b to follow aba. This closing couplet, like a funeral hearse, Drives to its
...
9
The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature: 1485-1603
Likewise in Fulgens and Lucres, main-plot characters Fulgens, Lucres, and the
suitors Cornelius and Gayus speak in rhyme royal. Rhyme royal identifies its
speakers as dignified and the narrative as serious. Medwall sometimes employs
...
Mike Pincombe, Cathy Shrank, 2009
10
Elizabethan Translation and Literary Culture
The friendly demands of rhyme Rhyme royal is the metre of the great bulk of
More's vernacular poetry: his Pageant Verses, his Rufull Lamentation, his
Fortune Verses, his versions of Pico's prose memoranda and of Pico's elegiac
couplets.
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