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
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
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
Stories are also divided into paragraphs, chapters, stanzas, scenes, or episodes, each with their own endings, to help us keep track of things and understand what is going on.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
