Fortunately, with the help of the stanza form that Spenser invented it’s not so hard. That form deserves special consideration of its own, which I’ll offer next time.

Whoa, that’s Shakespeare. (Sonnet 60.) But it’s the best description I know of the verse form invented by his contemporary Edmund Spenser for To continue reading for FREE, please sign in.

Queen ELIZABETH I made him England’s poet laureate. But the complete works of Edmund Spenser -- whose epic poem, “The Faerie Queene,” so dazzled the monarch -- are hard to find these days ...