rhyme royal

a stanza of seven lines in iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc, first used in English by Chaucer

See rhyme royal in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A form of verse having stanzas with seven lines in iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc.
  2. One of these stanzas.
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