ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Spenserian Stanza, Sonnet, Ottava Rima
28 Mar 2018
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"the faerie queene: the first brooke" -- edmund spenser. From book 1, tells the story of the red cross knight [figure for st. george of england], on a quest to conquest his lady"s kingdom from a dragon. A part of spenser"s 12 private virtues: written in spenserian stanza. Spenserian stanza: eight lines of iambic pentameter, last line is iambic hexameter (alexandrine) with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc. Lines fall into perfect iambic pentameter, line 3 scans differently: li(cid:374)e 3: first thi(cid:374)g that we (cid:374)oti(cid:272)e a(cid:271)out the k(cid:374)ight, ridi(cid:374)g horse has (cid:373)ighty ar(cid:373)s the(cid:374) there is an emphasis on the wounds held by the shield. Spenser adds these details to convey the knight"s experience in battle. Interesting elaboration, there is an involving of one group of rhymes with the next, as seen with the spenserian sonnet. First 4 lines, are then joined by the following, a joining of the "b" rhyme. Riding around with no arms, holiness is defensive structures.
