stanzas

Example Sentences

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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

When California’s new poet laureate, Lee Herrick, recited “My California,” his best-known work, from the poetry stage, the stanzas had a hypnotic effect on the throngs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2023

I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2023

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

Words to a song, “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,” formed into stanzas.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge