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Definition of Spenserian sonnet
1. Noun. A sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee.
Definition of Spenserian sonnet
1. Noun. A sonnet comprising of three quatrains with the latter rhyme part being carried over from one quatrain to the next, and a concluding couplet; therefore, comprising of a rhyme scheme of ''abab bcbc cdcd ee.'' The second type of sonnet. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spenserian Sonnet
Literary usage of Spenserian sonnet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of English Versification by James Wilson Bright, Raymond Durbin Miller (1910)
"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows
end. SHAKESPEARE, Sonnets xxx 109. The Spenserian sonnet. ..."
2. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The following example of the Spenserian sonnet
is taken from Spenser's cycle of love sonnets, the Amoretti. ..."
3. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The following example of the Spenserian sonnet
is taken from Spenser's cycle of love sonnets, the Amoretti. ..."
4. Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on by Nathan Drake (1838)
"The Spenserian sonnet, then, consists of three tetrachords in alternate ...
The structure, indeed, of the Spenserian sonnet is, with the exception of a ..."
5. Shakespeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet by Nathan Drake (1843)
"The Spenserian sonnet, then, consists of three tetrachords in alternate rhyme
... The structure, indeed, of the Spenserian .sonnet is, with the exception of ..."
6. The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement: A Study in Eighteenth by William Lyon Phelps (1893)
"Forty-six of these sonnets are on the Miltonic model, and the other four are
after the Spenserian pattern — a curious fact, as the Spenserian sonnet has ..."
7. The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement: A Study in Eighteenth by William Lyon Phelps (1893)
"Forty-six of these sonnets are on the Miltonic model, and the other four are
after the Spenserian pattern — a curious fact, as the Spenserian sonnet has ..."
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