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"