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HEROIC STANZA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heroic stanza mean?
• HEROIC STANZA (noun)
The noun HEROIC STANZA has 1 sense:
1. a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab
Familiarity information: HEROIC STANZA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("heroic stanza" is a kind of...):
quatrain (a stanza of four lines)
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