elegiac stanza
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noun
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We are much afraid that the tendency of the present age towards the facetious has contributed not a little to the dearth of sonnets and the extermination of the elegiac stanza.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
The poem being in the elegiac stanza, Dryden relapsed into an imitation of "Gondibert," from which he had departed ever since the "Elegy on Cromwell."
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George
A quatrain consisting of iambic pentameter verse with alternate rhymes is called an elegiac stanza.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
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