| 1. | The new stanza was an improved form of Ariosto's _ottava rima_ i.e. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 2. | It is written in an elaborate stanza combining meter and alliteration. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 3. | compared with Chaucer Spenserian poets Spenserian stanza Stage, in early play. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 4. | of the first stanza of this poem, but was not the author of the second and third. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 5. | TN The sudden and pointless changes in the stanza form are of course part of Chaucer's parody. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | Compare with this stanza the fourth stanza of the Prioress's Tale, the substance of which is the same. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 7. | The last stanza of the boatman's song, in _Remorse_, serves better to express the world's judgment than any epitap. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 8. | The exquisite Spenserian stanza and the rich melody of Spenser's verse have made him the model of all our modern poets. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 9. | These lines and the succeeding stanza are addressed to Pandarus, who had interposed some words of incitement to Cressida. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 10. | to repeat those stanzas in utter defiance of the sense, eithe. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 11. | He glanced at his own white taper fingers, shuddering slightly in spite of himself, and passed on, till he came to those lovely stanzas upon Venic. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 12. | Here I heard myself apostrophised as a "hard little thing" and it was added, "any other woman would have been melted to marrow at hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 13. | More ingenious is the poem in which rime is made by cutting off the first letter of a preceding word, as in the five stanzas of "Paradise. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 14. | seven-line stanzas that compose it but pains have been taken to convey, in the connecting prose passages, a faithful idea of what is perforce omitted. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 15. | Then arose a slim, melancholy girl, whose face had the "interesting" paleness that comes of pills and indigestion, and read a "poem." Two stanzas of it will d. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 16. | The stanzas which follow contain a paraphrase of the matins for Trinity Sunday, allegorically setting forth the doctrine that love is the all-controlling influence in the government of the universe. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |