- The
Spenserian stanza is a
fixed verse form
invented by
Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The
Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each
stanza contains nine
lines in...
- The
Spenserian sonnet is a
sonnet form
named for the poet
Edmund Spenser. A
Spenserian sonnet consists of
fourteen lines,
which are
broken into four stanzas:...
-
Spenserian may
refer to the
adjective of Spenser, in
particular Edmund Spenser (1552/3–99),
English poet, in
particular Spenserian stanza, used in The...
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favour in the court.
Spenser used a
distinctive verse form,
called the
Spenserian stanza, in
several works,
including The
Faerie Queene. The stanza's main...
- is also the work in
which Spenser invented the
verse form
known as the
Spenserian stanza. On a
literal level, the poem
follows several knights as a means...
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neither the
expense nor the fatigue. The poem's four
cantos are
written in
Spenserian stanzas,
which consist of
eight iambic pentameter lines followed by one...
- such as four-line quatrains.
Other forms are more complex, such as the
Spenserian stanza.
Fixed verse poems, such as sestinas, can be
defined by the number...
- + 2
lines Shakespearean sonnet: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Spenserian sonnet: ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
Spenserian stanza: ABABBCBCC,
where the last line is an alexandrine...
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ottava rima Byron, Lord
Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage 1812-18 4,455
lines Spenserian stanza Chaucer,
Geoffrey Troilus and
Criseyde 1380 c. 1380 8,239 lines...
-
genres such as the
essay (Montaigne) and new
metrical forms such as the
Spenserian stanza made
their appearance. The
impact of the
Renaissance varied across...
