- plural of stanza.
stanzas
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She spends three stanzas working herself up to expressing her pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
And two others, “No Fear” and “Happy With You,” repeat lyrics like mantras as the music builds around them, filling up over 11 minutes of music with just two stanzas of words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
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
I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2023
A few more stanzas, and they cracked open, revealing a triangular crevice.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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