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stanzas
noun(stan-za)
a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe
stanzas
noun(stan-za)
a period (such as a half or an inning) into which the duration of a game is divided
stanzas
noun(stan-za)
a stanza consisting of four lines with the first and third lines unrhymed iambic tetrameters and the second and fourth lines rhymed iambic trimeters
stanzas
noun(stan-za)
a rhymed quatrain in heroic verse with a rhyme scheme of abab —called also heroic quatrain
stanzas
noun(stan-za)
an iambic pentameter quatrain with a rhyme scheme aaba
stanzas
noun(stan-za)
a stanza consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter and an alexandrine with a rhyme scheme ababbcbcc

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