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stanzas

noun as in verse

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noun as in stave

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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.

He reads from a stack of loose papers, his hands moving in time with the stanzas he spits like rap bars.

Still, it’s another of the poem’s stanzas, unspoken here, that points most forcefully to “Fellow Travelers’” project.

The song has two long tangled verses, but separating them down into poetic stanzas gives me the opportunity to pluck the images that were defining a poor Black early '90s experience.

From Salon

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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