Excerpt from Literary Leaves, or Prose and Verse, Vol. 2 of 2: Chiefly Written in India

Spenserian measure is one stanza of nine lines. Some poems have been constructed entirely of sonnet-stanzasf. Though the Spenserian stanza is much shorter, it is generally complete in itself.

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