In songs or ballads, one of several similar poetic units, which are usually sung to the same tune; also called verse
A group of lines in a file that together have a common function or define a part of a system Stanzas are usually separated by blank lines or colons, and each stanza has a name The stanzas of the C for AIX compiler default configuration file, /etc/vac cfg, specify information that the compiler uses when it is invoked
Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme
In the AIX and SunOS operating systems, a group of lines in a file that together have a common function Stanzas are usually separated by blank lines, and each stanza has a name
A selection of a song, two or more lines long, characterized by a common meter, rhyme, and number of lines
A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc
- a part of a poem made by arranging the lines into units separated by a space, usually of a corresponding number of lines and a recurrent pattern of meter and rhyme
a group of lines forming a unit in poetry (very similar to a paragraph) Stanzas can be classified accoring to the number of lines they contain, as shown in the table below
A group of lines which form a division of a poem Stanzas are usually set off from one another by a space The distinguishing characteristics of stanzas are the number of lines, the number of feet in each line and the rhyme scheme However, some unrhymed poems are divided into stanzas
A phrase and the successive phrases that relate to it through repetition, variation, call and response, or other devices
a section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing Some distinguish a stanza, a division marked by a single pattern of meter or rhyme, from a verse paragraph, a division marked by thought rather than pattern Close Window
a group of verses separated from other such groups in a poem and often sharing a common rhyme scheme
In the AIX operating system, a group of lines in a file that together have a common function or define a part of the system Stanzas are usually separated by blank lines or colons, and each stanza has a name For example, the stanzas for the AIX compiler default configuration file specify information that the compiler uses when it is invoked
A section of a poem Stanzas are separated with blank lines between and generally identified by their pattern of rhyme, meter or repetition In contemporary conversation about poems, stanza is often used for any poem section rhymed or not
A stanza is one of the parts into which a poem is divided. a group of lines in a repeated pattern forming part of a poem = verse (from stantia; STANCE)
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
a poetic paragraph, a group of lines in a poem that form a metrical or thematic unit
A group of lines in a file that together have a common function or define a part of the system Stanzas are usually separated by blank lines or colons, and each stanza has a name
A four-line stanza often used in ballads, rhyming in the second and fourth lines and having four metrical feet in the first and third lines and three in the second and fourth
a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c; "the spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene