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has gloss | (noun) 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" Spenserian stanza |
has gloss | eng: The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene. 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." |
lexicalization | eng: Spenserian stanza |
subclass of | (noun) a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem stanza |
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has gloss | deu: Die Spenserstrophe oder Spenser-Stanze, benannt nach Edmund Spenser, ist eine englische Weiterentwicklung und Anreicherung der italienischen Stanze (Ottava rima). Von ihr unterscheidet sich diese Strophenform durch das abweichende Reimschema ababbcbcc, und durch eine hinzugefügte 9. Zeile, die nicht nur 6-hebig ist im Gegensatz zu den ersten acht 5-hebigen Zeilen, sondern auch die für den Alexandriner typische Mittelzäsur hat. |
lexicalization | deu: Spenserstrophe |
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has gloss | ita: La strofa spenseriana (o spenserian stanza) è una strofa composta di otto pentametri giambici e un verso alessandrino legati da rime ababbcbcc. Prende il nome dal poeta Edmund Spenser, che la inventò utilizzandola per la prima volta in The Faerie Queene. |
lexicalization | ita: Strofa spenseriana |
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