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
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
The final three stanzas of “Song of Myself” were also highlighted.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
