stanza

1. 1.

   a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

   Broadertext

   NarrowercoupletoctavesestetenvoyquatrainSpenserian stanzastropheantistropherhyme royalottava rima

   Part ofpoem

   Partsline

Other forms of stanza

plural

stanzas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stanza

What does stanza mean?

stanza means "a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem".

How many syllables are in stanza?

stanza has 2 syllables: stan-za. The stress falls on "stan". In IPA it is /ˈstænzə/.

Is stanza a common word?

stanza is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.