What is the meaning of Spenserian stanza?

noun

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