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Spenserian stanza
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noun
the stanza used by Spenser in his Faerie Queene and employed since by other poets, consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and a final Alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc.
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Origin of Spenserian stanza
First recorded in 1810–20
Words nearby Spenserian stanza
Spener, Spengler, Spenser, Spenserian, Spenserian sonnet, Spenserian stanza, Spens' syndrome, spent, Spenta Amesha, Spenta Mainyu, spent gnat
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British Dictionary definitions for Spenserian stanza
Spenserian stanza
noun
prosody the stanza form used by the poet Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene, consisting of eight lines in iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine, rhyming a b a b b c b c c
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