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Which poet is famous for creating an intricate stanza?

stanza

[stan-zuh] / ˈstæn zə /
NOUN
stave
Synonyms


NOUN
verse
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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

“Obviously, the second half, definitely missed more shots,” said Wells, whose team made 2 of 11 from deep in the second stanza.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024

The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence—the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

In his analysis of “Moving Towards Home,” Miller highlights stanzas such as:

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

And two others, “No Fear” and “Happy With You,” repeat lyrics like mantras as the music builds around them, filling up over 11 minutes of music with just two stanzas of words.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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

The final three stanzas of “Song of Myself” were also highlighted.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green


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