The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene. Each verse contains nine lines in total: eight lines of iambic pentameter, with five feet, followed by a single line of iambic heptameter, with seven. The rhyme scheme of these lines is "ababbcbcc." Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (c. ... The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, and one of the major forms of narrative literature. ... Una and the Lion by Briton Rivière The Faerie Queene is an epic poem by Edmund Spenser, first published in 1590 (the first half) with the more or less complete version being published in 1596. ... Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry. ... Heptameter is one or more lines of verse containing seven metrical feet (usually fourteen or twenty-one syllables). ...

Spenser's invention may have been influenced by the Italian form ottava rima, which consists of eight lines of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme "abababcc." This form was used by Spenser's Italian role models Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso. Another possible influence is the rhyme royal, a traditional mediæval form used by Geoffrey Chaucer, among others, which has seven lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme "ababbcc." It has been suggested that Sicilian octave be merged into this article or section. ... Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 – July 6, 1533) was an Italian poet, author of the epic poem Orlando furioso (1516), Orlando Enraged. He was born at Reggio, in Emilia. ... Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered; 1575), in which he describes the imaginary combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. ... Rhyme royal is a rhyming stanza form that was introduced into English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer. ... Chaucer: Illustration from Cassells History of England, circa 1902. ...

Spenser's verse form fell into disuse in the period after his death. However, it was revived in the 1800s by Lord Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by John Keats for The Eve of St. Agnes, and by Percy Bysshe Shelley for The Revolt of Islam and Adonais. Events and Trends Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). ... Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ... Published between 1812 and 1818, Childe Harolds Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem by the English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. ... John Keats John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. ... The Eve of St. ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822; pronounced ) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. ... Adonais is an epic poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley as an elegy to John Keats in 1821. ...