Read full poem →cot asunder by so strong a casure, that in English we should divide it into
the three-foot stanza, as
Dictionary Entry
A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
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. stanza1 stanza2 stanzastanza firststanza laststanza secondstanza thirdstanza final
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Poetry examples for “stanza”
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Read full poem →[• This is the first stanza of a song by Lord Chesterjicld, R.]
Read full poem →a circumstance, which, till I saw this ode, seemed wanting to complete the amiable union
which reigned between them. In the third stanza, the reader will see an authority for Mil*
Khi*s use of the word rime for verse in general,
Read full poem →4.(a) What emotion sweeps through the
speaker's body in the final stanza? (b) How
Read full poem →ea the place he or she recalls. Present the
S Mae observations in the first stanza; pre-
Td S or her associations in the next stanza;
Read full poem →''cudgel his brains'' for the idea of a poem or the
structure or diction of a stanza. He wrote out of a
large fund or reserve of thought and consideration,
Read full poem →in all the others of one line--mostly the second in the verse"
(stanza?)--"which flows continuously, with only an aspirate pause in
the middle, like that before the short line in the Sapphio Adonic,
Read full poem →separate poem entitled "To Ianthe in Heaven," in Burton's 'Gentleman's
Magazine' for July, 1839. The fifth stanza is now added, for the first
time, to the piece.
Read full poem →name of the editor, N. P. Willis, appended, and was ascribed to him.
When first published, it contained the following additional stanza which
Poe subsequently, at the suggestion of Mrs. Whitman wisely suppressed:
Read full poem →form; but the presence in all the others of one line-mostly the second in
the verse” (stanza?)—“which flows continuously, with only an
aspirate pause in the middle, like that before the short line in the