Standard Habbie

English

Etymology

After the poet Habbie Simpson (1550-1620).

Noun

Standard Habbie (usually uncountable, plural Standard Habbies)

  1. (prosody) A Scottish verse form with six-line stanzas rhyming AAABAB, with tetrameter A lines and dimeter B lines.

Synonyms

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