Spencer's poetry festival is a lyric poetry style initiated by Spencer, an English Renaissance poet. There is no limit to the number of sections, with nine lines per section. The first eight lines are iambic pentameter, and the last line is iambic hexameter. The rhyme form is ababbcbcc. The poetic style is complete in structure, moderate in length, lyrical in narrative, strong in rhythm and full of music. This style was used in Spencer's famous long poem The Fairy Queen, and later became one of the important styles of English poetry, which had a great influence on the formation of English metrical poetry.
The influence of poetic style
This poem was ignored and rarely used in the17th century, but it was re-popular in the18th and19th centuries, and it was regarded as the main genre of English poetry, such as Wordsworth's Guilt and Sorrow, Byron's Travel Notes of Childe Hallor, and Keats' Eve of Saint-Yanni's Day.
This style has an influence on poetry in western European countries. The 20th century Dutch poet Klose's poem "A Deeper Life-Dream" was written with "Spencer Poetry Festival".