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The
rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter.
The
rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be constructed
either
as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or
a
quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c).
This
allows for a good deal of variety, especially when the form is used for
longer
narrative poems and along with the couplet,
it
was the standard narrative metre in the late Middle Ages.
Example Poem
Tenpus Ambigua (Rhyme Royal)
The concept time is quite beyond my ken.
String theory
baffles brilliant folks and me.
I'll not wax
philosophical again.
Perhaps I did
already, shame on me.
We'd be confused in
synchronicity.
For flies who live
for but a single day,
young boys and men
would seem two breeds at play.
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We can tell larva
and the grown-up fly
are one, we see them
grow. They must mistake
we humans as a
species that won't die.
Our sense of time is
different awake
or when asleep, and
tasks a diff'rence makes.
Don't tell a guy
that seconds are the same
while shov'ling shit
or kissing up a dame.
© Lawrencealot -
July 12, 2013
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