Poems in rhyme royal
Seven lines rhyming ABABBCC: Chaucer's stanza in Troilus and Criseyde, used by Shakespeare in The Rape of Lucrece. Below, every poem or stanza on Laurel whose rhyme scheme and length are exactly this form.
20 poems on Laurel
- The Owl Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · ABABBCC
- Only a Dancing Girl W. S. Gilbert, The Bab Ballads · ABABBCC
- Sic Semper Liberatoribus! Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Sympathy Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Storm Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Youth Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Peace Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
- The Heritage James Russell Lowell, Poems · ABABBCC
- Drede John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Drede John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Moss and Fern Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABABBCC
- Suspycyon John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
- A Revocation Sir Thomas Wyatt, Poems · ABABBCC
- Dyssymulation John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Haruy Hafter John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Fauell John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Drede John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Dame Pallas to the Quene of Fame John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
- Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus ... Sir Thomas Wyatt, Poems · ABABBCC
- The Guides at Cabul Henry John Newbolt, Poems: New and Old · ABABBCC
Each poem's metre was measured from its own words by the method described here; the figure beside a poem is the share of its stressed syllables that fall on the beat. Forms are named from the rhyme scheme and line count together.