Explanation: The principal characteristic of a Spenserian sonnet is <u><em>abab bcbc cdcd ee rhyme scheme</em></u>. A sonnet is a fixed verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme. It has its origins in Italian poetry. The Spenserian sonnet uses the English squeme of three quatrains and a couplet, but ressembles the Italian sonnet in its rhyming squeme. Sometimes Spenser had to invert the usual word order to keep the squeme.
