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stan·za

stanza

 
 
pronunciation:
staen z
part of speech: noun
definition: a group of related lines in a poem that are separated typographically from other similar groups and that often have a regular meter and rhyme scheme.
The poem is composed of three stanzas of six lines each.
derivation: stanzaic (adj.)