1.säkeistömuoto, jossa on kahdeksan jambista pentametriä ja päättävä aleksandriini riimikaavalla abab bcbc c
1.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"