Venus and Adonis stanza

Venus and Adonis stanza

poetry
      a stanza consisting of an iambic pentameter (pentameter) quatrain and couplet with the rhyme scheme ababcc. The stanza was so called because it was used by William Shakespeare in his poem Venus and Adonis (1593).

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