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Epithalamion (poem) good at the end. Epithalamion follows a rhyme a scheme of ABACC, DEDEFF, and so on (except the 15th stanza.). The structure is 24 stanzas, each with either 18 lines or 19 (15th stanza has 17 lines). There are 365 lines in total. There are 24 stanzas and 365 lines in the poem to represent the year leading up to Spenser's wedding day. The poem starts at midnight of the day of the wedding, as Spenser grows anxious of the future he is embracing. Every stanza is an hour of that day, eventually leading to the event and then to