Poems in the Spenserian stanza

Nine lines rhyming ABABBCBCC, eight of them pentameter and the last an alexandrine: invented for The Faerie Queene, revived by Byron in Childe Harold and Keats in The Eve of St Agnes. Below, every poem or stanza on Laurel whose rhyme scheme and length are exactly this form.

177 poems on Laurel

1. The Female Vagrant William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads · ABABBCBCC
2. Stanzas Written in My Pocket Copy of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence" William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works, Volume II · ABABBCBCC
3. Canto III Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCBCC
4. Canto II Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCBCC
5. Canto IV Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poetical Works, Volume I · ABABBCBCC
6. Canto I LV Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
7. Canto IV CV Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
8. Canto IV CXXXV Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
9. Canto IV LXXXIV Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
10. Canto I XXXVII Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
11. Canto IV CL Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
12. Canto IV LXXV Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
13. Canto IV IX Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
14. Canto II LXXVIII Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
15. Canto II LXXXI Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
16. Canto II XXX Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
17. Canto III XCIV Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage · ABABBCBCC
18. Stanzas, on the Same Occasion Robert Burns, Poems and Songs · ABABBCBCC
19. Canto Sixth: The Guard-room I Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake · ABABBCBCC
20. Canto Fourth: The Prophecy I Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake · ABABBCBCC
21. The Harvest Morning John Clare, Poems · ABABBCBCC
22. Pastoral Fancies John Clare, Poems · ABABBCBCC
23. Poem William Cullen Bryant, Poems · ABABBCBCC
24. After a Tempest William Cullen Bryant, Poems · ABABBCBCC
25. To a Friend Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems · ABABBCBCC
26. Elegy II. to Boscán, Written at the Foot of Mount Etna Garcilaso de la Vega, The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega · ABABBCBCC
27. Book II James Beattie, The Minstrel and Other Poems · ABABBCBCC
28. On the Death of His Brother, Don Bernardino De Toledo Garcilaso de la Vega, The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega · ABABBCBCC

The first 28 of 177 poems, best-known poets first. The rest are reachable through their poets.

Each poem's metre was measured from its own words by the method described here; the figure beside a poem is the share of its stressed syllables that fall on the beat. Forms are named from the rhyme scheme and line count together.