"Spenserian stanza" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Spenserian stanzas [plural]
Etymology: Invented by English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/53–1599) for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Head templates: {{en-noun}} Spenserian stanza (plural Spenserian stanzas)
  1. (poetry) A strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine, having three rhymes: the first and third; the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh; and the sixth, eighth, and ninth. Wikipedia link: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Categories (topical): Poetry

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