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VERSE |
Stanza |
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STIKE |
Stanza. |
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STANCE |
A stanza. |
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STANZAS |
Of Stanza |
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QUATRAIN |
Stanza of four lines |
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INVERSE |
It’s the opposite in stanza |
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QUARTETTE |
A stanza of four lines. |
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PERVERSE |
Each stanza of poetry is twisted |
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STAVE |
A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. |
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SEXTAIN |
A stanza of six lines; a sestine. |
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MESYMNICUM |
A repetition at the end of a stanza. |
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TETRASTICH |
A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses
or lines. |
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TETRACOLON |
A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of
four verses or lines. |
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SPELL |
A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with
magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm. |
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OCTAVE |
The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four
verses each; a stanza of eight lines. |
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STAFF |
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded,
the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. |
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SPENSERIAN |
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; --
specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie
Queene." |
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INTERCALATE |
To insert among others, as a verse in a stanza;
specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers
of a regular series of rocks. |
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TRIOLET |
A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first
line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the
second being, repeated as the eighth. |
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VILLANELLE |
A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the
first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third
verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close. |
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BURDEN |
The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at
the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often
repeated or... |
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STROPHE |
...during this movement. Also
sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under
Antistrophe. ... |