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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A form of verse having stanzas with seven lines in iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc.
- n. One of these stanzas.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Pros.) a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer
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hernesheir A stanza scheme consisting seven 5-stress lines (iambic pentameter) rhyming ababbcc. Also called the Chaucerian stanza. Sep 18, 2009