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In Memoriam stanza

In Memoriam stanza, a stanza of four iambic tetrameter linesrhyming abba, used by Tennyson in the sequence of lyrics makingup his In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850). This was the most notable English use of this envelope stanza, although not the first. See also quatrain.

 
 
 

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