BURNS METER


Meaning of BURNS METER in English

noun

or burns stanza ˈbərnz-, ˈbə̄nz-, ˈbəinz-

Usage: capitalized B

: a stanza often used by Robert Burns and other Scottish poets consisting of six lines rhyming aaabab of which the fourth and sixth are regularly iambic dimeters and the others iambic tetrameters

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