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Definition of Stanzas
1. stanza [n] - See also: stanza
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stanzas
Literary usage of Stanzas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"The whole is in seven-line stanzas; and the contents following the ahove are a
prayer, five stanzas; an introduction of twenty-four stanzas; ..."
2. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1886)
"Sir Patrick Spens,' Buchan's Ballads of the North stanzas of E and of L, ...
The imperfect copies K, stanzas 6-10, Ml, 3, show admixture with the more ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Thus, the following four stanzas in both sequences have a form which, as it has
in various ways become notable in the " Lauda Sion ", may be given here in ..."
4. Scot. Text S. by William Drummond (1906)
"A cock sometime with feathers fresh and gay,' 8 stanzas of 7 lines. The Morall, p.
5, 6 stanzas, ' This gentle Jasp,' &c. The prety tale of the playne ..."
5. Journal of Theological Studies (1904)
"There the stanzas consisting of five verses are far more numerous; and they
exhibit nearly all possible structures: 1 + 3 + 1, 2+1 + 2, 1 + 2 + 2, 2+2 + 1. ..."
6. The Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior, Pārçvanātha by Bhāvadevasūri (1919)
"But there is, after all, a difference between purely religious stanzas and
proverbial stanzas. It is the difference between dharma on the one hand, ..."
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