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stanza

13 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. stanza (noun)
  2. ballad stanza (noun)
  3. elegiac stanza (noun)
  4. heroic stanza (noun)
  5. Monk's Tale stanza (noun)
  6. Omar stanza (noun)
  7. romance stanza (noun)
  8. Rubaiyat stanza (noun)
  9. Spenserian stanza (noun)
  10. tail-rhyme stanza (noun)
  11. Venus and Adonis stanza
  12. Burns meter (noun)
  13. Troilus verse (noun)

stan·za

noun \ˈstan-zə\

Definition of STANZA

: a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe
— stan·za·ic \stan-ˈzā-ik\ adjective
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Origin of STANZA

Italian, stay, abode, room, stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia stay — more at stance
First Known Use: 1589

Other Literature Terms

apophasis, bathos, bildungsroman, bowdlerize, caesura, coda, doggerel, euphemism, poesy, prosody

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