stanza
- an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
Origin of stanza
Synonyms for stanza
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Contemporary Examples of stanza
Finally, just before the tenth stanza, a crestfallen Alvarado whispered that he was done.
And writers seem to get it a lot, the relationship between words and page and phrase and paragraph, or stanza.
E-book use on the iPhone exploded, with over a million downloads of the Stanza application alone.
Historical Examples of stanza
A stanza, the final one of that masterpiece, has been preserved.
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In this stanza Rhuvawn is celebrated as pious, valiant, and hospitable.
Y GododinAneurin
“Nodi,” may also have reference to “nod” in the third line of the stanza.
Y GododinAneurin
The eagle was probably the armorial badge of the hero of this stanza.
Y GododinAneurin
That stanza, as it stands above, does not occur in any of the extant quasi-originals.
Sir Walter ScottGeorge Saintsbury
stanza
- prosody a fixed number of verse lines arranged in a definite metrical pattern, forming a unit of a poem
- US and Australian a half or a quarter in a football match
Word Origin for stanza
Word Origin and History for stanza
"group of rhymed verse lines," 1580s, from Italian stanza "verse of a poem," originally "standing, stopping place," from Vulgar Latin *stantia "a stanza of verse," so called from the stop at the end of it, from Latin stans (genitive stantis), present participle of stare "to stand" (see stet).