adespoton

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Spenser did most unquestionably invent the English Spenserian stanza -- a form only inferior in individual beauty to the sonnet, which is itself practically _adespoton_, and far superior to the sonnet in its capacity of being used in multiples as well as singly.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889