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Elegiac Stanza
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1. elegiac stanza
a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme
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Elegiac Stanza
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prosody
a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
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Elegiac Stanza
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A four-line stanza in iambic pentameter having the rhyme scheme abab. Also called heroic quatrain, heroic stanza.
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