Crossword clues for stanza
stanza
- Poem section
- Piece of poetry
- Poem unit
- Poem portion
- Sestina section
- Poem piece
- Anthem section
- Song division
- Poetry unit
- Poetry piece
- Verse section
- Verse of a poem
- Poetry segment
- Poetic subunit
- Poem verse
- Poem subsection
- Part in a song
- Paragraph analogue
- One of six in “Annabel Lee”
- One of seven in "Jabberwocky"
- One of four in "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- Lines of poetry forming a pattern
- Lines forming a unit of verse
- Inning, in sports lingo
- Group of lyrical lines
- Group of lines
- Frost bit
- Epic poem part
- Anthem excerpt
- Verse segment
- Quatrain or sestet
- Poem part
- Each animal has one in "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
- One of four in "America"
- Song part
- One of four for "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- Series of measures
- Lyric unit
- Section of a poem
- A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
- Subdivision of "The Raven"
- Division for Dryden
- Part of a poem
- Anthem part
- Several lines
- Verse from South Africa on resistance mostly
- Group of verse lines
- Something Kipling wrote to some extent describes Tanzania
- Lines in road, ones round new zone
- Lines held by last Anzacs
- Laurel's speaking a bit of poetry
- Poetic unit
- Unit of a poem
- Poem division
- One of 18 in "The Raven"
- Song section
- Sonnet section
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stanza \Stan"za\ (st[a^]n"z[.a]), n.; pl. Stanzas (-z[.a]z). [It. stanza a room, habitation, a stanza, i. e., a stop, fr. L. stans, p. pr. of stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Estancia, Stance, Stanchion.]
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A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring, whether like or unlike, in measure.
Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode.
--Dryden. (Arch.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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 stantem (nominative stans), present participle of stare "to stand" (see stet). Related: Stanzaic.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse. 2 (context architecture English) An apartment or division in a building. 3 (context computing English) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
WordNet
n. a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Wikipedia
In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian stanza , "room") is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, though stanzas are not strictly required to have either. There are many unique forms of stanzas. Some stanzaic forms are simple, such as four-line quatrains. Other forms are more complex, such as the Spenserian stanza. Fixed verse poems, such as sestinas, can be defined by the number and form of their stanzas. The term stanza is similar to strophe, though strophe is sometimes used to refer to irregular set of lines, as opposed to regular, rhymed stanzas.
The stanza in poetry is analogous with the paragraph that is seen in prose; related thoughts are grouped into units. In music, groups of lines are typically referred to as verses. The stanza has also been known by terms such as batch, fit, and stave.
A stanza is a unit of poetry within a larger poem. Stanza may also refer to:
- Lexcycle Stanza, a program for reading eBooks, digital newspapers, and other digital publications
- Nissan Stanza, an automobile manufactured by Nissan
- Stanza Poetry Festival, a poetry festival in St. Andrews, Scotland
- XML stanza, a computing concept in XML documents
Usage examples of "stanza".
In five stanzas, of ten lines each, alliteration occurs in all save twelve lines.
He opened his bureau and brought forth the stanzas of which he was the subject.
The stanzas which follow contain a paraphrase of the matins for Trinity Sunday, allegorically setting forth the doctrine that love is the all-controlling influence in the government of the universe.
Autumn is the note before the last melisma, the third stanza, the congregation fumbling in hymnals to read both words and music.
Some years previously I published stanzas, or a monody, on the death of Lord Byron.
A perfect stanza of iambic pentameter, and the first altar of science had revealed itself in pristine clarity.
Orazio e la sposa nella propria stanza aveva data loro la ingrata e dolorosa notizia.
The rhyme scheme, too, was a formidable one, with stanzas of seventeen lines that allowed of only three different rhymes, arranged in a pattern of five internal couplets split by a triolet and balanced by four seemingly unrhymed lines that actually were reaching into adjacent stanzas.
I find some unfinished stanzas addressed to this son, whom afterwards we lost at Rome, written under the idea that we might suddenly be forced to cross the sea, so to preserve him.
Yet there will be found some instances where I have completely failed in this attempt, and one, which I here request the reader to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alexandrine in the middle of a stanza.
For the next seven years, despite repeated strokes, my grandfather worked at a small desk, piecing together the legendary fragments into a larger mosaic, adding a stanza here, a coda there, soldering an anapest or an iamb.
I send you this copy, the first that I have sent to Ayrshire, except some few of the stanzas, which I wrote off in embryo for Gavin Hamilton, under the express provision and request that you will only read it to a few of us, and do not on any account give, or permit to be taken, any copy of the ballad.
He, however, seriously observed of the last stanza repeated by him, that it nearly comprized all the advantages that wealth can give.
Jon-Tom began to blast out raw-edged stanzas full of free trade, reduced tariffs, and an international standard of taxation based on ecus instead of the dollar.
Scarcely had the poetess got through her first stanza, when Tom Ingoldsby, in the enthusiasm of the moment, became so lost in the material world, that, in his abstraction, he unwarily laid his hand on the cock of the urn.