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    stanza
    /ˈstanzə/

    noun

    • 1. a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

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  2. A stanza is a group of lines of poetry forming a unit, often with a regular pattern of rhyme or meter. Learn more about the meaning, usage and pronunciation of stanza, and see examples and translations in different languages.

  3. A stanza is a division of a poem with a recurring pattern of meter and rhyme. Learn more about the word history, examples, phrases, and related articles of stanza from Merriam-Webster.

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    What is a stanza? Here’s a quick and simple definition: Some additional key details about stanzas: 1. Stanzas provide poets with a way of visually grouping together the ideas in a poem, and of putting space between separate ideas or parts of a poem. Stanzas also help break the poem down into smaller units that are easy to read and understand. 2. St...

    Couplets in Max Ritvo's "Boy Goes to War"

    Here's a contemporary example of the use of coupletsin a work of free verse by the poet Max Ritvo.

    Tercets in Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night"

    Tercets are the basic unit of a form known as the villanelle, which follows an ABA rhyme scheme and has two refrainsthat repeat throughout the poem. These two tercets are the opening two stanzas of one of the more famous modern examples of the villanelle, Dylan Thomas;s "Do no go gentle into that good night."

    Quatrains in Millay's "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"

    This ballad by Edna St. Vincent Millay uses quatrains with a rhyme scheme of ABCB.

    Stanzas are used, much like paragraphs in prose, to group related ideas into units. This helps the poem to feel more structured and, therefore, more digestible to the reader or listener. The specific length, meter, and rhyme scheme of a stanza may be dictated by the poem's form, or they may be decisions that the poet makes freely according to his o...

    A stanza is a group of lines that form a smaller unit within a poem. Learn about different types of stanzas, how to pronounce them, and how they work in formal and free verse.

  4. A stanza is a division of four or more lines in poetry, having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme. Learn about the different kinds of stanzas, such as couplet, tercet, quatrain, quintain, and sestet, with examples from English poetry.

  5. A stanza is a group of lines of poetry forming a unit, often with a regular pattern of rhyme or meter. Learn more about the meaning, usage and pronunciation of stanza, and see examples and translations in different languages.

  6. Stanza definition: 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.. See examples of STANZA used in a sentence.

  7. Stanzas are the building blocks of formal poetry, like paragraphs in a story or verses in a song. They usually have the same number of lines each time, and often use a rhyming pattern that repeats with each new stanza. Shakespeare was the master of the stanza.