Spenserian Stanza

Features:

• 9 iambic lines
• first 8 - pentameter
• last line - hexameter or alexandrine
• rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc
• Examples: 

1. The Faerie Queene (Spenser)
2. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Byron)
3. "Eve of St. Agnes" (Keats)
4. Adonais (Shelley)