elegiac stanza

noun

a four-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming alternately.

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Also called heroic stanza.

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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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