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单词 stanza
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Definition of stanza in English:

stanza

noun ˈstanzəˈstænzə
  • 1A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For the shift in perspective and mood that we see here distinctly parallels and further develops a similar shift both in the sonnet and in the first few stanzas of the poem's development.
    • The stanza continues the poem's play with the withholding of images.
    • Outside his dramatic and narrative compositions the resulting strains show mostly in lyrical poems constructed of successive stanzas.
    • She organizes the first part of her mother's narrative into four prose passages, each shaped like a stanza in a poem.
    • The composer's job becomes, in this case, to find a single musical stanza that suits all the verse stanzas.
    • Its intricate rhyme scheme has six stanzas of seven lines each in a sequence of AAABBCC.
    • Bowyer evidently followed this spirit by omitting over eight stanzas of the poem and significantly altering others.
    • When first working with a client, Sheehan likes to film them reading the first few stanzas of the epic poem Casey at the Bat.
    • Free verse is positioned alongside tightly organized stanzas; individual poems range in length from 4 to 204 lines.
    • The last stanzas of the poem recall all the incipient violence woven into the myth of the Prince of Peace.
    • The first five stanzas of the poem consider the possibility of this Utopian, undifferentiated unity the opening lines propose.
    • But by the time we get to the end of the stanza and the poem, the tone will have changed totally.
    • Through the third stanza, the poem is a recollection of young love, a bittersweet and innocuous piece.
    • Armed with those data, Jouet composed poems about each of them in a similar poetic form: three stanzas of six verses each.
    • Musically, Brahms spends little time depicting the dialogue of the fourth, fifth and sixth stanzas of the poem.
    • First, with respect to prosody, he believes that the syllable count of poetic lines, strophes, stanzas, and poems was essential to the writing of biblical poetry.
    • That coming-to-consciousness is a task of great difficulty, and the final stanza of the poem enacts that difficulty.
    • The stanza turns the poem into an explication by allegory of Catholic doctrine.
    • However, the last stanza of this poem reluctantly acknowledges the need for-the inevitability of dualism.
    • If the poem ended after two stanzas, it would seem narrow of heart.
    Synonyms
    strophe, stave, canto
    1. 1.1 A group of four lines in some Greek and Latin metres.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is written in stanzas of four octosyllabic lines rhyming a b b a, and is divided into 132 sections of varying length.
      • I thought it was curious, then, when I saw the phrase in Sappho, in the first stanza of the poem To Atthis.

Derivatives

  • stanzaed

  • adjective
    • Sadly he has not completely escaped the variably narrow and slightly thicker, paragraphically stanzaed one-to-two pager.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘I believe I am open to just about any kind of poetry - metered and free, projective and neatly stanzaed, humorous and not’
      • I got more interested in expanding my work and less interested in stanzas and things - although Closer is written in stanzaed paragraphs.
      • There are prose poems in this work but it is the traditional stanzaed work that gives this volume its form.
      • In the opera stanzaed popular songs bring out its thematic and ideological content.
  • stanzaic

  • adjective stanˈzeɪɪk
    • I suggest therefore that the stanzaic form of ‘Ode’ is reminiscent of Spender's practice in Poems.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, sequences in his last three books juxtapose different strophic and stanzaic patterns, prose and verse, relatively coherent narrative elements, dream elements, and fragments of meditation.
      • The play is written in verse which varies between alternately rhyming quatrains and stanzaic form, the effect being lyric rather than dramatic.
      • It's presented, on the back cover, as a ‘sonnet sequence,’ and nearly all the poems, though of varying stanzaic configurations, are fourteen lines in length.
      • The amhrán or song metres have a richly assonated stanzaic form, and are also accentual.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Italian, literally 'standing place', also 'stanza'.

Rhymes

bonanza, Braganza, Constanza, extravaganza, kwanza, organza, Panzer
 
 

Definition of stanza in US English:

stanza

nounˈstanzəˈstænzə
  • 1A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Armed with those data, Jouet composed poems about each of them in a similar poetic form: three stanzas of six verses each.
    • Free verse is positioned alongside tightly organized stanzas; individual poems range in length from 4 to 204 lines.
    • The last stanzas of the poem recall all the incipient violence woven into the myth of the Prince of Peace.
    • For the shift in perspective and mood that we see here distinctly parallels and further develops a similar shift both in the sonnet and in the first few stanzas of the poem's development.
    • The stanza continues the poem's play with the withholding of images.
    • Bowyer evidently followed this spirit by omitting over eight stanzas of the poem and significantly altering others.
    • That coming-to-consciousness is a task of great difficulty, and the final stanza of the poem enacts that difficulty.
    • Its intricate rhyme scheme has six stanzas of seven lines each in a sequence of AAABBCC.
    • The composer's job becomes, in this case, to find a single musical stanza that suits all the verse stanzas.
    • First, with respect to prosody, he believes that the syllable count of poetic lines, strophes, stanzas, and poems was essential to the writing of biblical poetry.
    • The first five stanzas of the poem consider the possibility of this Utopian, undifferentiated unity the opening lines propose.
    • Outside his dramatic and narrative compositions the resulting strains show mostly in lyrical poems constructed of successive stanzas.
    • However, the last stanza of this poem reluctantly acknowledges the need for-the inevitability of dualism.
    • She organizes the first part of her mother's narrative into four prose passages, each shaped like a stanza in a poem.
    • If the poem ended after two stanzas, it would seem narrow of heart.
    • Through the third stanza, the poem is a recollection of young love, a bittersweet and innocuous piece.
    • The stanza turns the poem into an explication by allegory of Catholic doctrine.
    • When first working with a client, Sheehan likes to film them reading the first few stanzas of the epic poem Casey at the Bat.
    • Musically, Brahms spends little time depicting the dialogue of the fourth, fifth and sixth stanzas of the poem.
    • But by the time we get to the end of the stanza and the poem, the tone will have changed totally.
    Synonyms
    strophe, stave, canto
    1. 1.1 A group of four lines in some Greek and Latin meters.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is written in stanzas of four octosyllabic lines rhyming a b b a, and is divided into 132 sections of varying length.
      • I thought it was curious, then, when I saw the phrase in Sappho, in the first stanza of the poem To Atthis.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Italian, literally ‘standing place’, also ‘stanza’.

 
 
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