Having rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c --for 10 points-- name this stanza form most famously used by Byron in Don Juan.
John Frere's mock-heroic poem "Whistlecraft" may have been the first original use of this verse form in English. Originally lines of eleven syllables were used by its Italian originators, but it most famous English employer shortened lines to ten syllables and first used it for his mock- heroic "Beppo". Having rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c --for 10 points-- name this stanza form most famously used by Byron in Don Juan.
John Frere's mock-heroic poem "Whistlecraft" may have been the first original use of this verse form in English.
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