stanza

Example Sentences

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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

The right questions elicit stanzas of profane one-liners, flamboyant slang and coldblooded wisdom.

From Los Angeles Times

“Apparently,” each stanza begins in English, a repetition that prompts us to notice how much lies behind appearances, behind language.

From Washington Post

I admit I was one who did not hear Clampitt’s music at first: Her poems often impressed me as overcharged prose, as in this final stanza of “The Kingfisher”:

From Washington Post

Mills, 75, said she doesn’t write political poetry, but the poem for her granddaughter’s birth started with a stanza about male politicians who “Yell on the TV.”

From Seattle Times