elegiac stanza

noun

a four-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming alternately.

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advocate
to give up possession or occupancy of.
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Also called heroic stanza.

Words nearby elegiac stanza

elegancy, elegant, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, elegiac stanza, elegist, elegit, elegize, elegy, elegy written in a country churchyard
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British Dictionary definitions for elegiac stanza

elegiac stanza

noun

prosody a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
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