Spenserian stanza
nounEtymology
Invented by English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/53–1599) for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96).
Definitions
A strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine, having three rhymes
A strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine, having three rhymes: the first and third; the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh; and the sixth, eighth, and ninth (ABABBCBCC).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Spenserian stanza. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA