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SPENSERIAN STANZA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Spenserian stanza mean?
• SPENSERIAN STANZA (noun)
The noun SPENSERIAN STANZA has 1 sense:
1. a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c
Familiarity information: SPENSERIAN STANZA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene
Hypernyms ("Spenserian stanza" is a kind of...):
stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)
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