Stave
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic, Stanzaic | | |
| Description: | | A short-lined (usually tetrameter or less) drinking song
stanza form. A stricter definition has the stave as a six-line stanza of uniform line length composed of rhymed couplets with a refrain: aabbcC ddeecC ffggcC,
etc. The strictest form has the refrain as both first and last line of the sestet, giving: AabbaA AaccaA AaddaA, etc. | | |
| Schematic: | | aabbcC
ddeecC
ffggcC, etc. or
AabbaA
AaccaA
AaddaA, etc.
Where C or A are refrains repeated throughout. | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 6 | | |
| See Also: | | Double Glose, Scupham Stanza, Sestet | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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