"rhyme royal" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1898, Henry Augustin Beers, chapter 10, in 18th Century: A History of English Romanticism:",
          "text": "Perhaps the most engaging of the Rowley poems are \"An Excelente Balade of Charitie,\" written in the rhyme royal; and \"The Bristowe Tragedie,\" in the common ballad stanza.",
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        "A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)."
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        "(uncountable, poetry) A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)."
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          "word": "ballade royal"
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          "word": "rhythm royal"
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          "word": "rime royal"
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          "ref": "1938 Jan, H. S. V. Jones, “Brief Mention”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 37, number 1, page 126:",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ballade royal"
    },
    {
      "word": "rhythm royal"
    },
    {
      "word": "rime royal"
    }
  ],
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