MONK'S TALE STANZA


Meaning of MONK'S TALE STANZA in English

noun

Usage: usually capitalized M&T

Etymology: from the Monk's Tale in The Canterbury Tales (1386-1400) by Geoffrey Chaucer died 1400 English poet, where such stanzas are used

: a stanza of eight five-stress lines with the rhyme scheme ababbcbc

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