heroic stanza
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heroic quatrain
or heroic stanzan.
See elegiac stanza.
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heroic stanza
n
(Poetry) a quatrain having the rhyme scheme a b a b
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Noun | 1. | heroic stanza - a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab quatrain - a stanza of four lines |
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