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SPENSERIAN STANZA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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