spenserian sonnet

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   a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee

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Questions about spenserian sonnet

What does spenserian sonnet mean?

spenserian sonnet means "a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee".

Is spenserian sonnet a common word?

spenserian sonnet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.