Entertainment / Literature / Spenserian Stanza: A nine-line stanza rhyming in an ababbcbcc pattern in which the first eight lines are pentameter and the last line is an alexandrine. The name spenserian comes from the form's most famous user, Spenser, who used it in The Fairie Queene. Other examples include Keat's 'Eve of Saint Agnes' and Shelley's 'Adonais.' The Spenserian stanza is probably the longest and most intricate stanza generally employed in narrative poetry.
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Entertainment / Literature / Spenserian Stanza: A nine-line stanza rhyming in an ababbcbcc pattern in which the first eight lines are pentameter and the last line is an alexandrine. The name spenserian comes from the form's most famous user, Spense MORE