Spenserian stanza

noun

Etymology

Invented by English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/53–1599) for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96).

Definitions

  1. 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