ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Spenserian sonnet is a sonnet form named for the poet Edmund Spenser. A Spenserian sonnet comprises three interlocked quatrains and a final couplet, with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Spenserian Stanza: A Brief Introduction The final line of each stanza is an Alexandrine, which is a line of verse in iambic hexameter (twelve syllables, 6 beats) instead of pentameter.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.