ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Spenserian stanza, verse form that consists of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a ninth line of six iambic feet (an alexandrine); the rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc. The first eight lines produce an effect of formal unity, while the hexameter completes the thought of the stanza.

Detailed explanation-2: -Edmund Spenser’s sonnets follow the Spenserian sonnet form, which is a slight variation of the English (Shakespearean) sonnet. The rhyme scheme for these poems is abab bcbc cdcd ee.

Detailed explanation-3: -The unit of Edmund Spenser’s long poem The Faerie Queene, consisting of eight iambic-pentameter lines and a final alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ABABBCBCC.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Spenserian Stanza. Edmund Spenser devised the Spenserian stanza for his great work The Faerie Queene (1590). The stanza consists of eight lines of iambic pentameter followed by a single alexandrine, a twelve-syllable iambic line.

Detailed explanation-5: -A nonet is a nine-line poem. In the nonet form, each line contains specific, descending syllable counts. The first line contains nine syllables, the second line contains eight, the third line contains seven, and so on. The last line of nonet poetry contains one syllable.