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Spenserian stanza

a stanza consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter and a final line of iambic hexameter (an alexandrine), with a rhyme scheme ababbcbcc, used by Spenser in The Fairie Queene

See Spenserian stanza in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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