SPENSERIAN


Meaning of SPENSERIAN in English

adj. of, relating to, or in the style of Edmund Spenser, Engl. poet d. 1599. Spenserian stanza the stanza used by Spenser in the Faerie Queene, with eight iambic pentameters and an alexandrine, rhyming ababbcbcc.

[ E. Spenser ]

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