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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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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