Spenserian stanza
spen·se·rians·tanza
noun
1.
a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c
- “the spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene”
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