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spenserian

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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 dictionary

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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. Camille Paglia

As in the Spenserian stanza above, alexandrines are sometimes mixed with pentameter verse. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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