spenserian
Speech parts
1. spenserian - Noun
2. spenserian - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene."
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
The Fairie Queene makes cinema out of the west's primary principle: to see is to know; to know is to control. The Spenserian eye cuts, wounds, rapes.
As in the Spenserian stanza above, alexandrines are sometimes mixed with pentameter verse.
In a Spenserian sonnet, the last line of every stanza is linked with the first line of the next one, yielding the rhyme scheme ababbcbccdcdee.