stanza
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Now in the fourth stanza she suddenly admits personal loss: “A Book I have – a friend gave –.”
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
The Buffaloes led 59-47 entering the fourth quarter but struggled in the final stanza scoring just nine points.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Gregor and Henry had played out the last stanza of “The Prophecy of Gray.”
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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
Like many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, she’s making stanzas from its leftovers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Taylor mixes stanzas and prose blocks with photographs and collages and timelines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Partway through the stanzas, he began to sob.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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