... Also, Spenser deceived the readers by intermittently delaying the break of the stanza. The rhyme scheme, which should generally be in harmony with the rhetorical stanza line structure of the poem's content, followed by an extensive range of patterns different from the traditional English scheme of abab, cdcd, efef gg or Wyatt's more traditional Petrarchan octave and sestet pattern of ... abbaabba cdccdc. In this case, both the 'aa' rhyme found between the octave and the 'cc' between the sestet create two internal links in a 'chain' (Goucher.edu 1). Spenser's analysis of the two alternat...

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