Definitions of 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”type of:stanzaa fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
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