An italian
rhyme scheme used by a few
poets in the
Renaissance. The rhyme scheme consists of 8 lines, the first six lines rhyme
a, b, a, b, a, b,
and the last two lines rhyme a, a
Rather like a little sonnet. One of the few poets to use this rhyme scheme during the Renaissance that I know if is Aemilia Lanyer who wrote her Salve Deus Rex Judeorum using this rhyme scheme for 1800-some-odd lines. Not exactly a weekend project!
A better known poet who used this scheme long after the Renaissance would be Lord Byron