 Spenser's stanza is the longest of the three, with nine iambic lines – the first eight of them five footed, that is, pentameters, and the ninth six footed, that is, a hexameter, or Alexandrine – which form "interlocking quatrains and a final couplet".The rhyme pattern is ABABBCBCC.Over two thousand stanzas were written for the 1590 "Faerie Queene".