Kraljevska kitica tudi Chaucerova kitica (Rhyme royal) je angleška kitična oblika sestavljena iz sedmih jambskih desetercev nebo (v drugih jezikich) enajstercev z rimo ababbccRečnik književnih termina, Nolit, Beograd 1985, s. 378 (Veselin Kostić, Kraljevska strofa).. Uporabljali jo Geoffrey Chaucer (Troilus and Criseyde), Thomas WyattRhyme royal (rime royale). (They flee from me), William Shakespeare (Lucrece), William MorrisRhyme royal, poetic form - Encyclopaedia Britannica. (The Earthly Paradise), John Masefield (DauberJohn Masefield, Dauber. A Poem, William Heinemann, London 1913.) in Emma Lazarus (Epochs).
Sweet empty sky of June without a stain, Faint, gray-blue dewy mists on far-off hills, Warm, yellow sunlight flooding mead and plain, That each dark copse and hollow overfills; The rippling laugh of unseen, rain-fed rills, Weeds delicate-flowered, white and pink and gold, A murmur and a singing manifold. (Emma Lazarus, Youth)
Francis Kynaston je prevedel Chaucerovo pesnitev Troilus and Criseyde v latinščino:
Tempestas tristis argumento maesto Videtur apta, bene et convenire. Sic erat quando scribere eram praesto Tragoediam hanc, inclemens caelum mire Cum grandines ab Ariete qui prodire Solent, coeperunt Borea sic descendere, Ut vix a frigore potui me defendereGeoffrey Chaucer (Francis Kynaston), Amorum Troili et Creseidae Libri Quinque.. (Amorum Troili et Creseidae Libri Quinque, 1639)
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Viri The art of versification by Joseph Berg Esenwein and Mary Eleanor Roberts, The Home Correspondence School, Springfield , s. 111-112.
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