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

  1. The Owl Alfred Tennyson, The Early Poems · ABABBCC
  2. Only a Dancing Girl W. S. Gilbert, The Bab Ballads · ABABBCC
  3. Sic Semper Liberatoribus! Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
  4. Sympathy Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
  5. Storm Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
  6. Youth Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
  7. Peace Emma Lazarus, Poems, Volume I · ABABBCC
  8. The Heritage James Russell Lowell, Poems · ABABBCC
  9. Drede John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
  10. Drede John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
  11. Moss and Fern Madison Julius Cawein, Poems · ABABBCC
  12. Suspycyon John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
  13. A Revocation Sir Thomas Wyatt, Poems · ABABBCC
  14. Dyssymulation John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
  15. Haruy Hafter John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
  16. Fauell John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
  17. Drede John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
  18. Dame Pallas to the Quene of Fame John Skelton, Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCC
  19. Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus ... Sir Thomas Wyatt, Poems · ABABBCC
  20. 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.