spenserian stanza

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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”

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Questions about spenserian stanza

What does spenserian stanza mean?

spenserian stanza means "a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c".

Is spenserian stanza a common word?

spenserian stanza 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.