English Explanatory Dictionary

Standard Habbie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Standard Habbie Standard Habbies

Etymology

After the poet Habbie Simpson (1550-1620).

Synonyms

Burns stanza
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