Plate Tectonics. The concept that describes and explains how the most significant features on the Earth's surface are produced by processes within the Earth when it acts units at the Earth's surface called plates. As a result, the plates to move around, and change in size and number over time.
The noun SPENSERIAN SONNET has 1 sense: 1. a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee. Familiarity information: SPENSERIAN SONNET used as a noun is very rare. Dictionary entry details. â¢ SPENSERIAN SONNET (noun).
Spenserian stanza. a nine line stanza rhyming ababbcbcc. The first 8 lines are in iambic pentameter and the ninth line is in iambic hexameter (a.k.a. an alexandrine). The ninth line (or alexandrine) breaks the monotony of the rhythm while still concluding the stanza with a couplet.