rhyme royal noun2 •A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400).Perhaps the most engaging of the Rowley poems are "An Excelente Balade of Charitie," written in the rhyme royal; and "The Bristowe Tragedie," in the common ballad stanza. — 1898 •A single stanza of this form.Chaucer for years before the Prologue to LGW had been writing heroic couplets at the close of each of his rhymes royal. — 1938 formsrhymes royal
