stanzas in English

noun
1
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
First, with respect to prosody, he believes that the syllable count of poetic lines, strophes, stanzas , and poems was essential to the writing of biblical poetry.

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1. Stanzas of 2 lines are called Couplet, Stanzas of 3 lines are called Tercet and Stanzas of 4 lines are called Quatrain.

2. 2 line stanzas are called Couplets.

3. The psalm has 22 stanzas, each containing 8 verses.

4. This short poem by Emily Dickinson has two stanzas of four lines each.

5. Ballad is a shorter narrative poem, which comprises of short stanzas.

6. Strictly, the Ballade consists of three stanzas and a shortened final dedicatory stanza

7. Ballade definition, a poem consisting commonly of three stanzas having an identical rhyme scheme, followed by an envoy, and having the same last line for each of the stanzas and the envoy

8. In ‘American Sonnet’ there is a great example of Alliteration in the fourth and fifth stanzas

9. What a wealth of information is contained in these verses, arranged in 11 stanzas!

10. The sources for these stanzas are not provided in the Prose Edda or elsewhere.

11. Futility consists of fourteen lines arranged in two stanzas which makes it a sonnet.

12. ‘Absences’ by Philip Larkin is a ten-line poem that is divided into three stanzas

13. Some additional key details about Couplets: Couplets do not have to be stand-alone stanzas.

14. 20 Before this stanza there are stanzas dealing with Zeus, the Father of the gods.

15. Ballade definition: a verse form consisting of three stanzas and an envoy , all ending with the same line

16. For combining adjacent Alcaics, thereby reducing the number of poems (though not the number of stanzas)

17. Furthermore, a Canzone runs from one to seven stanzas, and has a variety of rhyme schemes

18. He wrote a book of stanzas, Story of the Monkeys and Birds (Bya sprel gyi gtam-rgyud).

19. Ballade An Old French verse form that usually consists of three eight-line stanzas and a four-line envoy, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbc bcbc.The last line of the first stanza is repeated at the end of subsequent stanzas and the envoy.

20. “Cargoes” is a short lyric poem consisting of three five-line stanzas. In each, Masefield describes a different kind of ship

21. What does Ballad mean? A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas

22. The setting is noble simplicity itself, with the first two stanzas in unison and the final stanza reinforced with descant Alleluiahs.

23. 1 PART 2 VARIOUS It is written in stanzas of various length, bound together by the vowel-rhyme known as Assonance.

24. 13 The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas), rhyming abab cdcd efef, and a couplet (a two-line stanza), rhyming gg.

25. Breathless is a steady stream of a song that goes on without a break, stanzas, verse or apparently even a pause for breath.

26. Ballade definition is - a fixed verse form consisting usually of three stanzas with recurrent rhymes, an envoi, and an identical refrain for each part.

27. 19 The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas), rhyming abab cdcd efef, and a couplet (a two-line stanza), rhyming gg.

28. Not to be confused with the ballad, the Ballade contains three main stanzas, each with the same rhyme scheme, plus a shorter concluding stanza, or envoi.

29. Hart Crane’s “Chaplinesque” is a poem in five stanzas, the first two containing four lines each, the last three with five lines each

30. Barrelhouse Reviews: STUDIES OF FAMILIAR BIRDS by Carrie Green March 11, 2021 The stanzas are radiant, seeming capable of flight; unsentimental, yet stirring

31. ‘Blackberrying is a poem with 27 lines in three stanzas, each stanza having 9 lines and is a free verse as there is no specific rhyme scheme.

32. “Bogland,” a short poem of seven four-line stanzas (quatrains), is the final work in Seamus Heaney’s second collection of poetry, Door into the Dark

33. ‘It was monodic, and was composed in a variety of lyric metres in two or four-line stanzas, including the Alcaic stanza, named after him.’

34. Written in 1921, the optimistic "Chaplinesque," composed in five five-line stanzas, reprises the exuberance of comic Charlie Chaplin's film The Kid

35. However, verse has come to represent any division or grouping of words in a poetic composition, with groupings traditionally having been referred to as stanzas.

36. Ballades follow a strict rhyme scheme ("ababbcbc"), and typically have three eight-line stanzas followed by a shorter four-line stanza called an envoi

37. About “Anacreontics” Nine stanzas which seem to form an emblematic link between the Amoretti and the Epithalamion, these poems are modeled after those of Anacreon and Theocritus

38. Her praise was sung by many a Christian Hebraist; one poem in twenty-four stanzas with her acrostic, in honour of the "celebrated Princess Antonia", has been preserved in Johannes Buxtorf's collection of manuscripts.

39. Apostrophized anonymously as "my friend" two stanzas from the end of the canto, Wingfield is named and his death characterized in a footnote, where Byron also eulogizes by name C

40. 2 He's my Savior, Alleluia! 3 He is worthy, Alleluia! 4 I will praise him, Alleluia! 5 Maranatha, Alleluia! With these additional stanzas the theme of "Alleluia" becomes the praise of Christ

41. 27 Of the five chapters, chapters and 4 are each divided into twenty-two stanzas (the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet), and each stanza begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

42. Traditional folk Ballads began with the anonymous wandering minstrels of the Middle Ages, who handed down stories and legends in these poem-songs, using a structure of stanzas and repeated refrains to remember, retell, and embellish local tales.

43. ‘The overwhelming Celerity with which the everyday perpetually transforms its packaging, the excessively rapid turnover of signs has condensed our historical perspective.’ ‘She knows how to pack the energy inside her lines and irregular stanzas with startling Celerity and agility.’

44. ‘Its Cadences follow the rhythms of machines, and pull the reader into its moments of repetition, into its pauses.’ ‘Leaving the reading, the technically sound aspects of her poetry - including a penchant for patient Cadences and lengthy stanzas reminiscent of prose - …

45. A paraphrase of the Beatitudes from Matthew 5:3-16, the hymn maintains the two-part structure of Scripture in each blessing in the stanzas—“Blest are they, the poor in spirit; theirs in the kingdom of God”—each

46. Chantey or shanty (both: shăn`tē), work song with marked rhythm, particularly one sung by a group of sailors while hoisting sail or anchor or pushing the capstan.Often it has solo stanzas sung by a leader, the Chanteyman, with a chorus repeated after each by the entire group.

47. A strophe (/ ˈ s t r oʊ f iː /) is a poetic term originally referring to the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the Antistrophe and epode.The term has been extended to also mean a structural division of a poem containing stanzas of varying line length

48. Highly sequenced and logical organisation and presentation Stating a position; making a case/presenting an argument; supporting one’s belief, even with statistics or established authorities; concluding with strong recommendation and appeal Instructional emphasis given to rhyme and alliteration, though not compulsory; form – stanzas and verses; and diction – careful choice of words

49. Carol, broadly, a song, characteristically of religious joy, associated with a given season, especially Christmas; more strictly, a late medieval English song on any subject, in which uniform stanzas, or verses (V), alternate with a refrain, or burden (B), in the pattern B, V 1, B, V 2

50. Blackberrying’ is written in 3 stanzas and in free verse.Her poem gives a physical and spiritual journey: the physical journey is that she is going to the sea from a countryside lane; the spiritual journey is that her emotions change through the poem as she goes from being relaxed to …