stanzas
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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
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
She could multiply fractions, turn a cartwheel, and recite entire stanzas of “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” a marvelous poem about a shipwreck by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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