SONNET - II. The Spenserian Sonnet: The Spenserian sonnet, invented by Edmund Spenser as an outgrowth of the stanza pattern he used in The Faerie Queene (a b a b b c b c c),
Anthony Etherin on Twitter: "WINE AND WORDS — A Shakespearean sonnet in iambic trimeter. If only the first two feet of each line are read, it is a Spenserian Sonnet in iambic