stanzas
Example Sentences
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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
They spoke on a recent day in their Berlin studio as they giggled and tripped over their own stanzas — which exploit a feature of German grammar that crams nouns together into strings of syllables.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 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
I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues.
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2023
The only noise in the kitchen is her pen on the page crossing out and adding in, writing and rewriting stanzas, mixed with the slicing of scissors, the tearing of paper.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
