A wheel was a stanza form in Old English alliterative verse .
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As used, for example, by the Pearl Poet in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the wheel was a short four-line rhyming stanza, that followed a stanza and served as either a summary of or an ironic commentary on it. The wheel was joined to the stanza by a short one-beat line called a bob; together, the technique was known as the bob and wheel.
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