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- noun a
Turkish sailor who plies in coasting craft.
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Examples
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A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg.
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A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg.
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The poem is a Hanukkah sonnet that has 15 lines instead of the usual 14 and an aa bb cc dd ee ff ggg rhyme scheme (instead of, for example, the Shakespearean abab cdcd efef gg).
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A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg.
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A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg.
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The poem is a Hanukkah sonnet that has 15 lines instead of the usual 14 and an aa bb cc dd ee ff ggg rhyme scheme (instead of, for example, the Shakespearean abab cdcd efef gg).
A Good Hanukkah Poem for Children « One-Minute Book Reviews 2008
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I guess she thinks that it is abab program,and probably would like to repell it.
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Most of the stanzas that follow offer a debased version of the introductory stanzas, usually echoing either the abab quatrain opening or the closing couplet.
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The first twelve lines, arranged meaningfully in three four-line units or quatrains rhymed alternately in a pattern of abab, cdcd, efef, follow the course of the sun as it rises, shines brightly in mid-day, and then sets.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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Three quatrains (rhymed abab cdcd efef) lead on to the final quatrain (gg).
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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