ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -rhyme royal, rhyme also spelled rime, seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc. The rhyme royal was first used in English verse in the 14th century by Geoffrey Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde and The Parlement of Foules.

Detailed explanation-2: -A stanza of seven 10-syllable lines, rhyming ABABBCC, popularized by Geoffrey Chaucer and termed “royal” because his imitator, James I of Scotland, employed it in his own verse.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chaucer’s most common verse rhyme scheme in the Canterbury Tales, the rhyming couplet, would be described as “aa, bb, cc, dd” because it rarely repeats a rhyme due to the pressures on the poet to keep the narrative moving.

Detailed explanation-4: -Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and early 18th century respectively.

Detailed explanation-5: -Monk’s Tale stanza, a stanza of eight five-stress lines with the rhyme scheme ababbcbc. The type was established in “The Monk’s Tale” from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.