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Poetic stanza
Answer for the clue "Poetic stanza ", 10 letters:
spenserian
Word definitions for spenserian in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, from Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599), Elizabethan poet (for the origin of the surname, see Spencer ). Spenserian stanza , which he employed in the "Faerie Queen," consists of eight decasyllabic lines and a final Alexandrine, with rhyme scheme ab ab bc ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Spenserian may refer to 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, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spenserian \Spen*se"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem ``The Fa["e]rie Queene.''
Usage examples of spenserian.
Although I am confident that my evidence was sufficient, there were members of the committee who failed to believe that the presence of previously undiscovered Spenserian and Elizabethan music among native Ozark hill people was anything but curious coincidence.