Spenserian stanza
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- stanza hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | stanza |