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Spenserian stanza

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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 (ABABBCBCC).
  2. 2
    a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c wordnet

Etymology

Invented by English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/53–1599) for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96).

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