stanza
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The first stanza calls the dead person a “Creature,” meaning “something created.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
With every stanza, she settled into a musical rhythm that was satiric and bitingly honest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
Crocker has changed his approach as he was now coming forward a bit more with his tight guard, and that was suiting Donovan, with the fight seemingly on a knife-edge heading into the final stanza.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
But after a disastrous opening stanza, UW’s defense suddenly stiffened — forcing three punts and a turnover on downs, while surrendering a single field goal in Michigan’s next seven drives.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
Gregor and Henry had played out the last stanza of “The Prophecy of Gray.”
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
The books are episodic, composed of scenes that function like poetic stanzas that are linked as much by ideas and motifs as by narrative progression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Blunt as his Charles is, he proves to be the most guarded of the trio; there are unsung stanzas of sadness in his eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025
They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2023
I found it on the last page, in the very last words—not poetry in stanzas, just Frank’s prose.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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