stanzaic
- a word derived from stanza.
Example Sentences
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Each stanzaic form has its conveniences, its "fatal facility," its natural fitness for singing a song or telling a story or turning a thought over and over into music.
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
This distinction between "stanzaic law" and "emotional law" is highly suggestive and not merely in its application to the metres of the famous regular and irregular odes of English verse.
From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss
Sievers's view is that originally the two sorts of verse existed side by side, the stanzaic being preferred for chorus delivery, the stichic for individual recitation; one form at length crowding out the other.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
It has not been very successfully used in English, except in the stanzaic arrangement of Shelley's Ode to the West Wind,—aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
