单词 | stanza |
释义 | stanzan. 1. Prosody. A group of lines of verse (usually not less than four), arranged according to a definite scheme which regulates the number of lines, the metre, and (in rhymed poetry) the sequence of rhymes; normally forming a division of a song or poem consisting of a series of such groups constructed according to the same scheme. Also, any of the particular types of structure according to which stanzas are framed. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > [noun] > stanza of stanza1589 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza versec1308 baston?c1335 staff1533 stanza1589 couplement1594 stance1596 stave1659 strophe1895 st.- α. β. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. Av Euerie stanzo they pen after dinner, is full poynted with a stabbe.1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. iii. 108 From Calliope hie Stanzoes flow.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sestine, a Sestine, or stanzo of six verses.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. v. 15 Come, more, another stanzo: Cal you'em stanzo's? View more context for this quotation1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 144 The musick changes to a very solemn base..with certain stanzoes sung in praise of their deceased Ancestors.γ. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. ii. 54 Staffe in our vulgare Poesie I know not why it should be so called... The Italian called it Stanza, as if we should say a resting place.] 1595 E. C. Emaricdulfe xxxix. sig. C7 Thy name, thy honour, and loues puritie, With Stanzas, Layes and Hymnes Ile stellifie.1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars To Rdr. sig. A 3 Therefore..I chose Ariostos stanza of all other the most complete, and best proportioned, consisting of eight, sixe interwouen, and a couplet in base.1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger ii. i. 417 In euery corner they recite the pleasant Stanzaes of the gentle Furioso.1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 89 I will heereunto add further this Stanza of verses of the same quill.1674 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 7) i. ii. 35 The double Bars are set to divide the several Strains or Stanzaes [1658 Parts] of the Songs and Lessons.1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xlix The Secchia Rapita, is an Italian Poem... 'Tis written in the Stanza of Eight.1706 W. Congreve Pindarique Ode on Her Majesty's Arms Disc. sig. Ajv The Poet having made choice of a certain Number of Verses to constitute his Strophé or first Stanza, was oblig'd to observe the same in his Antistrophé, or second Stanza.1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 25 And each exalted Stanza teems with Thought!1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna Pref. p. xvi I have adopted the stanza of Spenser (a measure inexpressibly beautiful).1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xxxiv, in Poems (new ed.) II. 72 She came,..And sang to me the whole Of those three stanzas that you made About my ‘giant bole’.1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 257 A stanza of the song of nature the Oxonian has no ear for.1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. K4 The first stands is the complaint, the second the counsel. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 104 Let me heare a staffe, a stanze [printed stauze], a verse, Lege domine . View more context for this quotation 1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe v. sig. I3v This Stanze now following, alludes to the storie of Mannington. 2. In Italy, an apartment, chamber, room; spec. in plural ‖stanze /ˈstantse/, applied to certain rooms in the Vatican. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > [noun] clevec825 chamber?c1225 loftc1385 clochera1400 room1438 roomth1567 receipt1593 stance1632 receptacle1634 stanza1648 apartment1715 slum1819 space1921 shovel and broom1928 1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 34 At the right hand of this gallerie are severall stanzas full of Curiosities. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 79 The Agents of Serene Princes..have half a Stanza [in the Vatican]. 1823 Lady Morgan Salvator Rosa (1824) I. iii. 90 A certain sympathy..between the brothers-in-law frequently carried Salvator to the stanza or work-room of Francesco. 1823 Lady Morgan Salvator Rosa (1824) I. iii. 95 Having..studied or worked in the galleries, churches, or stanze of the eminent masters in Rome. 1878 J. E. Butler Catharine of Siena vii. 200 It forms the subject of a fresco in one of the stanze of the Vatican. ΚΠ 1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 219 Upon every stanza [i.e. ‘branch’ of an acrobat's pole] he would set a cup of water; then raysing it, he would dance with all these in like manner without spilling one drop. 4. Sport. A half or other session of a game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > game or definite spell of play > period of play half1876 quarter1889 period1898 forty1913 stanza1945 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xvii. 299 In football news we find..first or second stanza, the first or second half of a game. 1974 News & Reporter (Chester, S. Carolina) 22 Apr. 10- a/5 Comfort Control warmed their bats up in the final three stanzas to gain the victory. 1981 National Times (Austral.) 25 Jan. 23/3 There is also a growing habit of describing the next half or quarter of a football match as a ‘stanza’—perhaps because it is so poetic. Compounds stanza-form n. the form of a stanza (sense 1); arrangement in stanzas. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > arrangement in stanzas stanza-form1927 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > form of a stanza stanza-form1927 1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 293 There were variants of the normal stanza-forms. 1957 E. T. Cone in N. Frye Sound & Poetry i. 6 Zelter, keeping close to the unusual stanza-form..produces a top-heavy musical period. 1976 Classical Q. New Ser. 26 16 The catalectic effect in English or German is a function of the particular stanza-form. 1978 Early Music 6 629/1 A large number of ‘wasted pages’..are taken up with setting out the poetic texts in stanza form. Derivatives ˈstanzaed adj. (in parasynthetic derivatives), having (a specified number of) stanzas. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > stanzaic > having specific number of stanzas stanzaed1755 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 78 He..hit off an epigram or a three stanzaed song with some reputation. 1868 Chronicle No. 43. 67/1 The nine-stanzaed hymn. ˈstanza v. transitive to write stanzas upon.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > compose part of poem [verb (transitive)] stanza1796 1796 C. Lamb Final Mem. i. 199 (To Coleridge) Dyer stanza'd him in one of the papers t'other day. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1589 |
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