| Spens | English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599) |
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| Spens | a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee |
| Spens | a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c |