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Spenserian stanza

noun
1.
A stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c.





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"Spenserian stanza" Quotes from Famous Books



... attention has been specially directed to their worthlessness and incongruity [21]. I did not perceive anything particular in the mere style of the poem alluded to during its recitation, except indeed such difference as was not separable from the thought and manner; and the Spenserian stanza, which always, more or less, recalls to the reader's mind Spenser's own style, would doubtless have authorized, in my then opinion, a more frequent descent to the phrases of ordinary life, than could without an ill effect have been hazarded in the heroic couplet. It was not however the freedom ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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