riding rhyme

English

Etymology

Possibly in reference to the pilgrims riding to Canterbury in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which uses this meter.

Noun

riding rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural riding rhymes)

  1. iambic pentameter
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