English Explanatory Dictionary

Spenserian stanza

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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).

Word forms

Spenserian stanza Spenserian stanzas

Etymology

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

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