Search Result for "spenserian stanza":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Spenserian stanza n 1: 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"