- Look up
Spenserian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Spenserian may
refer to the
adjective of Spenser, in
particular Edmund Spenser (1552/3–99), English...
- 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:...
- 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...
- 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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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...
- 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...
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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...
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English practitioners such as
Edmund Spenser (who gave his name to the
Spenserian sonnet),
Michael Drayton, and Shakespeare,
whose sonnets are
among the...
-
written in
heroic couplets, and
rhyme royal,
though in the 16th
century the
Spenserian stanza and
blank verse were also introduced. The
French alexandrine is...
- + 2
lines Shakespearean sonnet: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Spenserian sonnet: ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
Spenserian stanza: ABABBCBCC,
where the last line is an alexandrine...
