Riding rhyme
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Riding rhyme is an early form of heroic verse
.
It has been described variously as a couplet
rhyme, in five accents, and as a decasyllabic couplet.
It is derived from the rhythm of the poetry in parts of Chaucer
's Canterbury Tales
depicting the pilgrims as they rode along.
Other examples might be Browning
's "How they Brought the Good News From Ghent To Aix
", or W. H. Auden
s verses for "Night Mail
".
Verse (poetry)
A verse is formally a single line in a metrical composition, e.g. poetry. However, the word has come to represent any division or grouping of words in such a composition, which traditionally had been referred to as a stanza....
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It has been described variously as a couplet
Couplet
A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do. A poem may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. Couplets with a meter of iambic pentameter are called heroic...
rhyme, in five accents, and as a decasyllabic couplet.
It is derived from the rhythm of the poetry in parts of Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...
's Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at...
depicting the pilgrims as they rode along.
Other examples might be Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...
's "How they Brought the Good News From Ghent To Aix
How they Brought the Good News From Ghent To Aix
How they Brought the Good News From Ghent To Aix is an 1838 poem by Robert Browning. Browning wrote it while at sea, sailing from London to Trieste. The work itself describes an imaginary incident....
", or W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
s verses for "Night Mail
Night Mail
Night Mail is a 1936 documentary film about a London, Midland and Scottish Railway mail train from London to Scotland, produced by the GPO Film Unit. A poem by English poet W. H. Auden was written for it, used in the closing few minutes, as was music by Benjamin Britten...
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