spenserian : Idioms & Phrases
spenserian sonnet
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noun a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee
WordNet
spenserian stanza
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noun a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c
- the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene