ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

EDMUND SPENSER

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which one of the following rhyme scheme is the rhyme scheme Spenserian stanza?
A
ab cb bc cd e
B
abba bccb d
C
ab bc cd de f
D
ab ab bc bc c
Explanation: 

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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Spenserian sonnet has the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee. The English sonnet, sometimes called the Shakespearean sonnet, has the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep! Will yet restore him to the vital air; Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair . Following this resurgence in the period of English Romanticism, the Spenserian stanza fell into disuse again in the mid-nineteenth century.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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