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The first stanza calls the dead person a “Creature,” meaning “something created.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

There’s that stanza in “There’s No Business Like Show Business” that goes: “There’s no people like show people / They smile when they are low.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Crocker has changed his approach as he was now coming forward a bit more with his tight guard, and that was suiting Donovan, with the fight seemingly on a knife-edge heading into the final stanza.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

Later in the first stanza, he gave the same treatment to USC star guard Isaiah Collier, who went under a dribble-handoff screen from WSU forward Isaac Jones, who shuffled it to Watts on the wing.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

It was, therefore, an eerily prophetic song, especially the stanza that went:

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The books are episodic, composed of scenes that function like poetic stanzas that are linked as much by ideas and motifs as by narrative progression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

In his analysis of “Moving Towards Home,” Miller highlights stanzas such as:

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

“Marina,” as the poem is known, consists of 291 stanzas and 2,900 verses.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

When California’s new poet laureate, Lee Herrick, recited “My California,” his best-known work, from the poetry stage, the stanzas had a hypnotic effect on the throngs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

She could multiply fractions, turn a cartwheel, and recite entire stanzas of “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” a marvelous poem about a shipwreck by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood