The Principles of English Versification
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Iv, p. 240. | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ _Nine-Line Stanza_ By far the most important of 9-line stanzas, and one of the finest ofall stanzas in English poetry, is the _ababbcbc^{5}c^{6}_ invented bySpenser--a double quatrain of 5-stress lines plus an alexandrine. Thisparticular octave had been used by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, andis sometimes referred to as the Monk's Tale stanza: the stroke ofmetrical genius lay in adding the 'supplementary harmony'... of thealexandrine, by which the whole stanza climbs to a majestic close orebbs in a delightful decrescendo as the poet wills. [59] The long swingof nine verses on three rimes, with the combined effect of theinterwoven rimes (_abab_ and _bcbc_) united by the couplet in themiddle, culminating in the unequal couplet at the close, theextraordinary opportunity of balancing and contrasting the rime sounds, and of almost infinitely varying the pauses--all these render theSpenserian stanza incomparable for nearly every sort of poeticexpression.
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Iv, p. 240. | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ _Nine-Line Stanza_ By far the most important of 9-line stanzas, and one of the finest ofall stanzas in English poetry, is the _ababbcbc^{5}c^{6}_ invented bySpenser--a double quatrain of 5-stress lines plus an alexandrine. Thisparticular octave had been used by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, andis sometimes referred to as the Monk's Tale stanza: the stroke ofmetrical genius lay in adding the 'supplementary harmony'... of thealexandrine, by which the whole stanza climbs to a majestic close orebbs in a delightful decrescendo as the poet wills. [59] The long swingof nine verses on three rimes, with the combined effect of theinterwoven rimes (_abab_ and _bcbc_) united by the couplet in themiddle, culminating in the unequal couplet at the close, theextraordinary opportunity of balancing and contrasting the rime sounds, and of almost infinitely varying the pauses--all these render theSpenserian stanza incomparable for nearly every sort of poeticexpression.
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