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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
How To Use Spenserian stanza In A Sentence
- the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene
- circumvolution," "presentifick circularity," struggle and sprawl within the narrow room of the Spenserian stanza. Milton
- On the whole, this custom has about the same disadvantages and advantages which Warton points out as resulting from the four rhymes of a Spenserian stanza; -- the advantages, -- picturesqueness, ingenuity, discovery of new beauties: the disadvantages, -- art not concealed by art, tautology, imparity of similitudes, a caricature of typology, painful and affected elaboration. Hymns of the Eastern Church
