Burns meter
noun
variants
or Burns stanza
ˈbərnz-,
ˈbə̄nz-,
ˈbəinz-
: a stanza often used by Robert Burns and other Scottish poets consisting of six lines rhyming aaabab of which the fourth and sixth are regularly iambic dimeters and the others iambic tetrameters
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“Burns meter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Burns%20meter. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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