heroic quatrain

noun Prosody.

a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.

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Nearby words

heroic, heroic age, heroic couplet, heroic drama, heroic poem, heroic quatrain, heroic stanza, heroic verse, heroicize, heroicomic, heroics

Also called elegiac quatrain.

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