stanza
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Then the second stanza abruptly ends, interrupted, just like that woman’s imagined life and activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
It is a source of joy — and, for anyone disheartened by mainstream discourse today, nostalgic pangs — to see how effortlessly Hitchens reaches for a stanza of W.H.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
Maybe she’ll find “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and write down the stanza that comes before the peach one.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
She spends three stanzas working herself up to expressing her pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In his analysis of “Moving Towards Home,” Miller highlights stanzas such as:
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
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
“Marina,” as the poem is known, consists of 291 stanzas and 2,900 verses.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Stories are also divided into paragraphs, chapters, stanzas, scenes, or episodes, each with their own endings, to help us keep track of things and understand what is going on.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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