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The Spenserian Quintilla is an American stanzaic form which was first recognized by Miller Williams in Patterns of Poetry when he notes a Spenserian variation framing The Second Best Bed by Howard Nemerov, he called it the Spenserian Quintilla.
The elements of the Spenserian Quintilla are:
stanzaic, written in any number of cinquains.
syllabic, L1-L4 are 8 syllables each, L5 is 12 syllables.
rhymed, axabb cxcdd etc x being unrhymed.
The Second-Best Bed by Howard Nemerov
Consider now that Troy has burned
---Pri