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What made the Faerie Queen a masterpiece?

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The excellence of The Faerie Queene lies in the complexity and depth of Spenser's moral vision and in the Spenserian stanza (nine lines, eight of iambic pentameter followed by one of iambic hexameter, rhyming ababbcbcc ), which Spenser invented for his masterpiece.

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