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  2. Spenserian stanza - Wikipedia

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    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. [1] [2]

  3. The Faerie Queene - Wikipedia

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    The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, [1] it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian ...

  4. Spenserian sonnet - Wikipedia

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    The Spenserian sonnet is a sonnet form named for the poet Edmund Spenser. [1] A Spenserian sonnet consists of fourteen lines, which are broken into four stanzas: three interlocked quatrains and a final couplet, with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. [2] It uses iambic pentameter. [3]

  5. Four Freedoms - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, these Four Freedoms were explicitly incorporated into the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which reads: "Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy the freedom of speech ...

  6. Edmund Spenser - Wikipedia

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    Spenser's masterpiece is the epic poem The Faerie Queene. The first three books of The Faerie Queene were published in 1590, and the second set of three books was published in 1596. Spenser originally indicated that he intended the poem to consist of twelve books, so the version of the poem we have today is incomplete.

  7. Complaints (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    This work, with the preceding one, is a rewriting of Spenser's first published work, on the theme of Roman liberty and its end. [14] It is not completely clear that authorship lies with Spenser The origins of this poem lay in a version via Clément Marot's French of Standomi un giorno solo a la fenestra, which is canzone 323 by Petrarch.

  8. Spenserian - Wikipedia

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    the adjective of Spenser, in particular Edmund Spenser (1552/3–99), English poet, in particular Spenserian stanza, used in The Faerie Queen; nine lines with rhyme scheme ABABBCBCC; Spenserian sonnet, with rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

  9. Epithalamion (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The last stanza is an envoy(a short formal stanza which is appended to a poem by way of conclusion) with 7 lines. There are 433 lines in total. In the 15th stanza, Spenser changes the structure. [4] Throughout the poem, the stanzas are structured with 18 or 19 lines. In the 15th, there is a line missing.