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A 'Bob and wheel' is a medieval poetic structure where a short line, the 'bob', is followed by a group of longer rhyming lines, forming a stanza.

Le 'Bob and wheel' est une structure poétique médiévale où une courte ligne, le 'bob', précède un groupe de lignes plus longues qui riment, le tout formant une strophe.

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Back a wheel is a group of short lines at the end of a larger stanza of longer lines
if its first line is even shorter than the others, it is known as a Bob and the whole group is then styled a Bob and wheel
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