rhyme royal

This consists of 31 rhyme royal stanzas and is more or less dependent on Chaucer's telling but for one important particular.

The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter.

Written in rhyme royal, it tells the story of the conversion of Paul the Apostle.

Like many stanzaic forms, rhyme royal fell out of fashion during the Restoration, and has never been widely used since.

Opening to Thomas Wyatt's rhyme royal poem:

Rhyme royal: "ababbcc".

The quarto ends with "A Lover's Complaint", a narrative poem of 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal.

"Troilus and Criseyde" by Geoffrey Chaucer, a poem in rhyme royal telling a tragic love story set during the war, derived from the above works.

Rhyme royal (or Rime royal) is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced into English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Assembly of Gods is composed of 301 seven line stanzas which have the standard ababbcc rhyme pattern of the rhyme royal.

"The Floure and the Leafe", is an anonymous Middle English allegorical poem in 595 lines of rhyme royal, written around 1470.

Another possible influence is rhyme royal, a traditional medieval form used by Geoffrey Chaucer and others, which has seven lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme "ababbcc."

It is written in Rhyme royal and was included in Arthur Quiller-Couch's edition of the Oxford Book of English Verse.

Isopes Fabules was written in Middle English rhyme royal stanzas by the monk John Lydgate towards the start of the 15th century.

King James I of Scotland wrote The Kingis Quair, a series of courtly love poems written in rhyme royal stanzas.

Chaucer first used the rhyme royal stanza in his long poems Troilus and Criseyde and Parlement of Foules.

The Thrissil and the Rois is composed in rhyme royal stanzas and makes free use of aureate vocabulary inspired by Latin and French.

A seven-line ballade, or ballade royal, consists of four stanzas of rhyme royal, all using the same three rhymes, all ending in a refrain, without an envoi.

The Kingis Quair uses the Chaucerian rhyme scheme rhyme royal: ABABBCC.

He avoids allowing couplets to become too prominent in the poem, and four of the tales (the Man of Law's, Clerk's, Prioress', and Second Nun's) use rhyme royal.

The poem contains twenty stanzas written in modified rhyme royal, and describes Wordworth's encounter with a leech-gatherer upon Barton Fell, near Ullswater in the Lake District, England.

James I of Scotland used rhyme royal for his Chaucerian poem The Kingis Quair, and it is believed that the name of the stanza derives from this royal use.

Also in 1593 there appeared the first of Drayton's historical poems, The Legend of Piers Gaveston, and the next year saw the publication of Matilda, an epic poem in rhyme royal.

This means, in effect, the poem has an "extra" seven lines (or the equivalent of one more "hidden" rhyme royal stanza) distributed across its two halves - 4 lines in the first, 3 lines in the second.

In addition, the fact that Chaucer chose to set her tale in elaborate rhyme royal, a rhyme scheme generally used in tales of courtly love, seems at odds with her tale's apparent emphasis on simple piety.