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Definition of Heroic stanza
1. Noun. A quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heroic Stanza
Literary usage of Heroic stanza
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetry of John Dryden by Mark Van Doren (1920)
"The heroic stanza with its leisurely authority continued to fascinate him ...
The heroic stanza motif was quickly silenced, but no other motif was as yet ..."
2. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1893)
"Two generations later there was an attempt made to set up another measure as our
national heroic stanza. It was not first invented by Sir William Davenant, ..."
3. A Manual of English Literature by Henry Morley (1880)
"... adoption of this measure as the heroic stanza, which Davenant found ready
perfected in Sir John ..."
4. The Elements of English Versification by James Wilson Bright, Raymond Durbin Miller (1910)
"... characteristic names, because of special origin, use, or rime- scheme, as,
for example, the Spenserian stanza, the heroic stanza, and the rime royal. ..."
5. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1918)
"With the exception Poetry. of the lyrics in his dramas, of several odes, and of
two early poems in the heroic stanza, Dryden cultivated steadily the heroic ..."
6. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"Alongside of the 'heroic couplet' should be mentioned the less widely used 'heroic
stanza' (a pentameter quatrain rhyming abab), best known through Gray's ..."
7. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... the limit of each stanza, that we shall afterwards have to trace back to this
poem the adoption of its measure as, for a time, our "heroic stanza. ..."
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