elegiac stanza

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   a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme

   Broaderquatrain

Questions about elegiac stanza

What does elegiac stanza mean?

elegiac stanza means "a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme".

Is elegiac stanza a common word?

elegiac stanza is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.