Romantic stanza
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic | | |
| Description: | | Alternating quatrains of basically dactylic meter where
lines one and three have eleven syllables, line two has ten, and line four is the first seven syllables of line one. | | |
| Attributed to: | | Maksim Bahdanovic, stanza so named by Bob
Newman | | |
| Origin: | | Belarus | | |
| Schematic: | | Rhyme: (Ba)baB
Meter:
Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx
Xxx Xxx Xxx X
Xxx Xxx Xxx Xx
Xxx Xxx X | | |
| Starting Point: | | With each quatrain, start with the first/last line,
since that line establishes your rhymes. | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 4 | | |
| Reference: | | Reference Link | | |
| See Also: | | Alternating Quatrain, Dactyl, Epyllion, Rondeau, Rondeau Prime, Serpentine Verses, Terzanelle | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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