Editing The Faerie Queene (section)

===Poetic structure===
''The Faerie Queene'' was written in [[Spenserian stanza]], which Spenser created specifically for ''The Faerie Queene''. Spenser varied existing epic stanza forms, the [[rhyme royal]] used by Chaucer with the rhyme pattern ABABBCC, and the ''[[ottava rima]]'' with the rhyme pattern ABABABCC. Spenser's stanza is the longest of the three, with nine iambic lines. The first eight lines are five-footed, that is, pentameters. The ninth line is six-footed, that is, a hexameter, or Alexandrine. Altogether these form two "interlocking quatrains and a final couplet".{{sfn|McCabe|2010|p=213}} The rhyme pattern is ABABBCBCC. Over two thousand stanzas were written for the 1590 ''Faerie Queene''.{{sfn|McCabe|2010|p=213}}