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Categories: Epic poetry, Stanzaic form, Edmund Spenser
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Spenserian stanza  Spencerian stanza  Spenserian meter  Spenserian metre
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A stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c WordNet 3.0
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A stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene. Wikipedia
A strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine, having three rhymes: the first and third; the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh; and the sixth, eighth, and ninth. Wiktionary
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The Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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