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# stanza

«stanza» in Mova's school dictionary: **a group of lines in a poem, set apart from the other…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stanza, stanzas)

### meaning for a pupil

A stanza is a group of lines in a poem, set apart from the other groups by a space, like a paragraph in a story; it is often called a verse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons on poetry, pupils count stanzas, find the rhyme scheme of each stanza and describe its pattern: a couplet (2 lines), tercet (3), quatrain (4). Answering questions like "In the second stanza, how does the poet feel?" is common in reading tests. In songs, a stanza is a verse, and the repeated part is the chorus.

### examples

- This poem has four stanzas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/#x1)
- Each stanza has four lines that rhyme. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/#x2)
- Read the first stanza aloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/#x3)
- In the last stanza, the poet feels hopeful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/#x4)
- Write a stanza about your favourite season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/#x5)
- A stanza is like a paragraph in a poem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/#x6)
- The second stanza describes the sea at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/#x7)
- And if one stanza sounded painfully-- [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/#x8)

### note

Countable: stanzas. "Verse" can mean stanza, but "verse" also means poetry in general, and in hymns and the Bible a verse is a numbered line. From Italian, meaning "room" or "stopping place".

### In the corpora

- [A stanza is a group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph in a story.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/25-reading-poems-meaning-sound-and-pictures/29/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stanza» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stanza/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.