Spenserian

[spen'si:əriən;-'siər-]

Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene."

Edited by Griffith

Definition

adj. pertaining to Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) or his versification esp. his stanza in The Faerie Queene a strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an Alexandrine having three rhymes the 1st and 3d the 2d 4th 5th and 7th and the 6th 8th and 9th.

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