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stanza

noun as in stave

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noun as in verse

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You can see it if you substitute two words in the final stanza of John Donne’s most famous poem—one I’ve always thought of as a meditation of sorts, and a passage I suspect we will all recognize.

The short film featured the singer delivering stanzas from British-Somali poet Warsan Shire, and celebrity cameos from the likes of Zendaya and Serena Williams.

Finally, just before the tenth stanza, a crestfallen Alvarado whispered that he was done.

And writers seem to get it a lot, the relationship between words and page and phrase and paragraph, or stanza.

But on January 28, on a typed draft, the final stanza is crossed out and replaced, with no hope for spring remaining.

The final stanza was the most fitting tribute I could imagine for my father.

E-book use on the iPhone exploded, with over a million downloads of the Stanza application alone.

No further hints need be offered except perhaps in regard to the last ten lines of the last stanza.

In order to shew the riming more clearly, I have 'set back' the 3rd, 6th, and 7th lines of each stanza.

Evidently this disclaimer is a pretended one; the preceding stanza and ll.

This stanza reproduces in the sixth line the last word of the first, and in the seventh the last word of the fourth.

Like Mirèio, the poem is divided into twelve cantos, and the form of stanza employed is the same.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stanza, such as: verse, refrain, and strophe.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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