Plate Tectonics. The concept that describes and explains how the most significant features on the Earth's surface are produced by processes within the Earth when it acts units at the Earth's surface called plates. As a result, the plates to move around, and change in size and number over time.
The noun SPENSERIAN SONNET has 1 sense: 1. a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee. Familiarity information: SPENSERIAN SONNET used as a noun is very rare. Dictionary entry details. â¢ SPENSERIAN SONNET (noun).
The Elizabethan age saw the flowering of poetry (the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, dramatic blank verse), was a golden age of drama (especially for the plays of Shakespeare), and inspired a wide variety of splendid prose (from historical chronicles, versions of the Holy Scriptures, pamphlets, and literary criticism to the first English novels).