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Plaint - noun: a cry of sorrow and grief

Onegin stanza, (If just one stanza, it's called the "Pushkin sonnet"), refers to the verse form popularized (or invented) by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin. The work was mostly written in verses of iambic tetrameter with the rhyme scheme aBaBccDDeFFeGG, where the lowercase letters represent feminine rhymes (stressed on the penultimate syllable, i.e., with an additional unstressed syllable) and the uppercase representing masculine rhymes (stressed on the ultimate syllable, i.e. stressed on the final syllable).

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