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stanza | American Dictionary

stanza
noun[ C ]
us/ˈstæn·zə/
literature
a related group of lines in a poem or song; a verse

Examples of stanza

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Typically, these are strophic songs with three, four, five or more stanzas repeated to the same accompaniment.
The vocal part in the last stanza is combined from these figures.
Suppose the stanza turned out to appeal to the choice that modern subjects make to safeguard choice, to remain cool customers in the faith market.
Moving to the fade-out, the verse and one stanza chorus are repeated, and then the lines of the extended bridge are used with new lyrics.
Verses have been grouped into stanzas following semantic criteria or by using clear parallelisms as boundaries of stanzas.
The last two stanzas make the poem's moral explicit : memories of beloved figures have the power to banish depression and loneliness.
On the other hand, poem 79 has 47 lines, divided into four stanzas.
The strophic effect is reinforced by the unvarying refrain at the end of each stanza.
The strophic text carefully distributes the content: each stanza contains a step in the narrative process; each has a distinct temporal reach and extent.
First, the refrain word is pronounced by the knight in all stanzas except the last: he controls the shepherdess.
Rather, it was important for the song to have seven stanzas, to be made of all perfect notes, and to promote high civic virtue.
In the final stanza, however, there is a very different form of time at work.
The first stanza is remarkable for its use of words taken from a technical legal vocabulary.
The common practice of cutting the second stanza is aesthetically indefensible.
The refrain has the same number of lines, of the same length, as the stanza, but it deploys them differently.
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