I have seen it called correlatio, Professor Vasiliauskas, though I cannot now put my finger on the source. By way of compensation I offer a fine late specimen, from Harry Mathews, after Dowland:

If you break our breakfast date, I'll go begging in Bangkok; 

If you start stalling, I'll stop everything; 

If you phone that freak, I'll fall down Everest; 

If you take that trip, please tow away my truck. 

   A date, a freak, a trip—I implore you to be careful. 

   I don't claim to be reasonable, I just can't stop. 

We can't take this sharp awareness into yesterday, 

No pondered memory of tomorrow can exalt it. 

Can black holes yield light? Can sunlight weigh more than stone? 

Can the split atom be reassembled? 

   When today is tomorrow, and the electrons rejoin each other, 

   Only then will my unreasonableness fail to invest you. 

(from “Trial Impressions,” in his Armenian Papers)

Jeff

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Date:    Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:24:09 -0400
From:    "Vasiliauskas, Emily" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: So shall wrath, gealosy, grief, love die and decay

Hello all,

Is there a technical name for that show-stopper interwoven list form that
Spenser uses from time to time? The example I have ready-to-hand is *FQ*
 II.iv.34:

"Wrath, gealosie, griefe, love do thus expel:

Wrath is a fire, and gealosie a weede,

Griefe is a flood, and love a monster fell;

The fire of sparkes, the weede of little seede,

The flood of drops, the Monster filth did breede:

But sparks, seed, drops, and filth do thus delay;

The sparks soone quench, the springing seed outweed

The drops dry up, and filth wipe cleane away:

So shall wrath, gealosy, grief, love die and decay."

I seem to remember a relationship between this and madrigal form? But I'm
not sure at all.

Best wishes,

Emily
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Emily Vasiliauskas
Assistant Professor of English
Williams College

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Date:    Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:11:03 +0000
From:    "RACK, MELISSA" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: So shall wrath, gealosy, grief, love die and decay

I suppose you could call it "spondaic verse" but I'm not sure that's a thing. Does madrigal have a specific verse form?

~Melissa J. Rack
Assistant Professor of English
University of South Carolina, Salkehatchie
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Subject: So shall wrath, gealosy, grief, love die and decay

Hello all,

Is there a technical name for that show-stopper interwoven list form that Spenser uses from time to time? The example I have ready-to-hand is FQ II.iv.34:

"Wrath, gealosie, griefe, love do thus expel:
Wrath is a fire, and gealosie a weede,
Griefe is a flood, and love a monster fell;
The fire of sparkes, the weede of little seede,
The flood of drops, the Monster filth did breede:
But sparks, seed, drops, and filth do thus delay;
The sparks soone quench, the springing seed outweed
The drops dry up, and filth wipe cleane away:
So shall wrath, gealosy, grief, love die and decay."

I seem to remember a relationship between this and madrigal form? But I'm not sure at all.

Best wishes,

Emily
---------------------------
Emily Vasiliauskas
Assistant Professor of English
Williams College

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