- 1. n. a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc Source: wordnet
- 2. A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in "Don Juan," by Keats in "Isabella," by Shelley in "The Witch of Atlas," etc. Source: webster
- 3. A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, thefirst six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming acouplet. It was used by Byron in "Don Juan," by Keats in "Isabella,"by Shelley in "The Witch of Atlas," etc. Source: adambom
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