Spenser would have been familiar with this rhyme scheme and simply added a line to the stanza, forming ABABBCBCC.
More likely, however, is the eight-line ballad stanza with the rhyme scheme ABABBCBC, which Chaucer used in his Monk's Tale. This form was used by Spenser's Italian role models Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso.Īnother possible influence is rhyme royal, a traditional medieval form used by Geoffrey Chaucer and others, which has seven lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme ABABBCC. Spenser's invention may have been influenced by the Italian form ottava rima, which consists of eight lines of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ABABABCC. To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:įierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song. Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds Whose prayses having slept in silence long, Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,Īs time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,įor trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,Īnd sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds
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