Spenserian stanza

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Etymology

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

Noun

Spenserian stanza (plural Spenserian stanzas)

  1. (poetry) 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.