In
poetry, a 'stanza' is a unit within a larger
poem. (The term means "room" in
Italian.) In modern poetry, the term is often equivalent with
strophe; in popular vocal music, a stanza is typically referred to as a "
verse" (as distinct from the
refrain, or "chorus"). In traditional
English-language poems, stanzas can be identified and grouped together because they share a
rhyme scheme or a fixed number of lines (as in
distich/
couplet,
tercet,
quatrain,
cinquain/quintain,
sestet). In much modern poetry, stanzas may be arbitrarily presented on the printed page because of publishing conventions that employ such features as white space or punctuation.
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