Spenserian stanza: Meaning and Definition of

Spense'rian stan'za

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. the stanza used by Spenser in his Faerie Queene and employed since by other poets, consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and a final Alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc.
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