Back مقطوعة سبنسرية Arabic Spenserstrophe German Spenser-strofo EO Estancia spenseriana Spanish Strophe spensérienne French Strofa spenseriana Italian სპენსერის სტროფი KA Spenserstrofe NB Strofa spenserowska Polish Спенсерова строфа Russian
The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines is ABABBCBCC.[1][2]