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2) A challenge for students by the Edmund Spenser Homepage: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm
2) A challenge for students by the Edmund Spenser Homepage: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm
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1) poetic form, first applied by Edmund Spenser in his epic The Faerie Queene with the rhyme scheme ababbcbcc. The metre of the first 8 lines is an Iambic pentameter, the last line is an Alexandrine.

2) A challenge for students by the Edmund Spenser Homepage: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm