Hudibrastic definitions

Hudibrastic

1) Of a playful burlesque style 2) Poetic form
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Hudibrastic

Hudibrastic is a type of English verse named for Samuel Butler`s Hudibras, published in parts from 1663 to 1678. For the poem, Butler invented a mock-heroic verse structure. Instead of pentameter, the lines were written in iambic tetrameter. The rhyme scheme is the same as in heroic verse (aa, bb, cc, dd, etc.), but Butler used feminine rhyme for....
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hudibrastic

iambic tetrameter couplets like those in Samuel Butler's Hudibras.
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Hudibrastic

• (a.) Similar to, or in the style of, the poem `Hudibras,` by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse.
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Hudibrastic

Hu`di·bras'tic adjective Similar to, or in the style of, the poem ' Hudibras ,' by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.
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Hudibrastic

Verse written in the style of Samuel Butler's satirical poem Hudibras. Hudibras, a poem written in rhyming octosyllabic couplets, concerns the exploits of a Presbyterian knight called Sir Hudibras.
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Hudibrastic

of, pertaining to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets. · of a playful burlesque style.
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