| spenser | (n) English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599), Syn. Edmund Spenser |
| spenserian sonnet | (n) a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee |
| spenserian stanza | (n) a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c, Example: the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene |
| Spenserian | a. Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem “The Faërie Queene.” [ 1913 Webster ] |