Spenserian stanza

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.

Origin of Spenserian stanza

First recorded in 1810–20

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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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