{"id":"01KG6S6KNXXG07T5XHRB1B9XN5","cid":"bafkreibxgwx3ckvsx7cyxvxxvrmy6fbn7rwui4eqe4js5qyxmta26twujy","type":"subsection","properties":{"description":"# Openser’s seven-line stanza.\n## Overview\nThis is a subsection titled \"Openser’s seven-line stanza.\" extracted from a text file, discussing the use of the seven-line stanza in English poetry, particularly in the context of Shakespeare's *Lucrece*. It was extracted on January 30, 2026.\n\n## Context\nThis subsection is part of section \"III\" within the file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA) and is part of the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. It follows the [Introduction](arke:01KG6S6KNXGHMS915QG45ER6RE) and precedes the subsection titled [Early criticism.](arke:01KG6S6KP08BDEMGHB7ZJEVN8N).\n\n## Contents\nThe subsection focuses on the seven-line stanza, a popular form in English literature before and during the Elizabethan era. It highlights Spenser's use of the stanza in *Ruines of Time* (1590) as an example anticipating Shakespeare's cadences. The text provides an example of Spenser's stanza. It also mentions other Elizabethan poets like Greene, Davis, Barnfield, and Drayton who employed the seven-line stanza, and notes Nicholas Breton's frequent use of it. A footnote refers to [Page 162](arke:01KG6QCD0CJ4447E66KTZ83R0X) of the source document.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T06:25:49.739Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"Openser’s seven-line stanza.","end_line":3489,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:43.553Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Openser’s seven-line stanza.","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":3472,"text":"Openser’s seven-line stanza.\n\nOf English poems in the metre which were written shortly before Shakespeare penned his *Lucrece*, the most memorable is Spenser’s *Ruines of Time*, published in 1590, in which Shakespeare’s cadences seem almost precisely anticipated. The following is a good example of the stanza in Spenser’s hands:—\n\nBut Fame with golden wings aloft doth flie,\nAbove the reach of ruinous decay,\nAnd with brave plumes doth beate the azure skie,\nAdmir’d of base-borne men from far away:\nThen, who so will with vertuous deeds assay\nTo mount to heaven, on Pegasus must ride,\nAnd with sweete Poets verse be glorifide.\n\nGreene’s *A Maidens Dreame, An elegy on Sir Christopher Hatton*,\n\n¹ Spenser employed the seven-line stanza with a different scheme of rhyming (ababcbc) in his *Daphnaida*, 1591, but in his *Hymnes*, 1596, he returned to the Shakespearean plan. Among the Elizabethan poets who used the seven-line stanza in long poems immediately after *Lucrece* were (Sir) John Davis in his *Orchestra*, 1594; Barnfield in *Complaint of Chastitie* and *Shepherds Content*, 1594; Drayton in *Mertimeriades*, 1596, and parts of *Harmonie of the Church*, 1596. At a little later date Nicholas Breton employed it constantly; cf. his *Pasquils Passe and Passeth* not, 1600; *Longing of a Blessed Heart*, 1601; *Pasquils Mad Cappe*, 1626.\n\n<!-- [Page 162](arke:01KG6QCD0CJ4447E66KTZ83R0X) -->\nLUCRECE 23","title":"Openser’s seven-line stanza."},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S5HRFGJ1FBM87NDW94Z5Z","peer_type":"section","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S6KNXGHMS915QG45ER6RE","peer_type":"intro","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6S6KP08BDEMGHB7ZJEVN8N","peer_type":"subsection","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:43.709Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:25:49.950Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}