What Is The Purpose Of A Monostich?

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: a series of quatrains rhyming abab in which the second rhyme of a quatrain recurs as the first in the succeeding quatrain, each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme (as bcbc, cdcd), and the initial rhyme of the series recurs as the second rhyme of the closing quatrain (xaxa)

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What does Centrys mean?

(Entry 1 of 2) 1 obsolete : center. 2 archaic : centering.

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