stanza
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A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.
An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
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According to Reginald Allen's The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as contemporaneous reviews, it was recited on the first night, rather than sung, and the middle stanza omitted.
After his death came Selected Poems (1972), followed by Peake's Progress in (1979 – though the Penguin edition of 1982, with many corrections, including a whole stanza inadvertently omitted from the hardback edition, is to be preferred).
A four-stanza pantoum is common (although more may be used), and in the final stanza, lines one and three from the first stanza can be repeated, or new lines can be written.
Anson traveled to Matthews on Tuesday to face Cox Mill in a non-conference game and got ambushed in the first quarter as the visitors found themselves trailing 27-2 going into the second stanza.
Child Ballads 117A:210, ie A Gest of Robyn Hode stanza 210 As it happens the next traveller is not poor, but it seems in context that Robin Hood is stating a general policy.
Another way of visualising the pattern of line-ending words for each stanza is by the procedure known as retrogradatio cruciata, which may be rendered as "backward crossing".