SPENSERIAN STANZA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Example:

the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Spenserian stanza" is a kind of...):

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)

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