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Noun: Spenserian stanza
  1. A stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c
    "the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene"

Derived forms: Spenserian stanzas

Type of: stanza

Encyclopedia: Spenserian stanza