VENUS AND ADONIS STANZA


Meaning of VENUS AND ADONIS STANZA in English

Usage: usually capitalized V & 2d A

Etymology: from Venus and Adonis (1593), poem in this stanza by William Shakespeare died 1616 English dramatist and poet

: a stanza consisting of an iambic pentameter quatrain and couplet with the rhyme scheme ababcc

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