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stanza

/stan-zuh/US // ˈstæn zə //UK // (ˈstænzə) //

一节,一节一节,诗句,一节课

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Prosody.

    • : an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.

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Examples

  • You can see it if you substitute two words in the final stanza of John Donne’s most famous poem—one I’ve always thought of as a meditation of sorts, and a passage I suspect we will all recognize.

  • The short film featured the singer delivering stanzas from British-Somali poet Warsan Shire, and celebrity cameos from the likes of Zendaya and Serena Williams.

  • Finally, just before the tenth stanza, a crestfallen Alvarado whispered that he was done.

  • And writers seem to get it a lot, the relationship between words and page and phrase and paragraph, or stanza.

  • But on January 28, on a typed draft, the final stanza is crossed out and replaced, with no hope for spring remaining.

  • The final stanza was the most fitting tribute I could imagine for my father.

  • E-book use on the iPhone exploded, with over a million downloads of the Stanza application alone.

  • No further hints need be offered except perhaps in regard to the last ten lines of the last stanza.

  • In order to shew the riming more clearly, I have 'set back' the 3rd, 6th, and 7th lines of each stanza.

  • Evidently this disclaimer is a pretended one; the preceding stanza and ll.

  • This stanza reproduces in the sixth line the last word of the first, and in the seventh the last word of the fourth.

  • Like Mirèio, the poem is divided into twelve cantos, and the form of stanza employed is the same.