rhyme royal

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   a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer

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Questions about rhyme royal

What does rhyme royal mean?

rhyme royal means "a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer".

Is rhyme royal a common word?

rhyme royal 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.