stanza

IPA: stˈænzʌ

A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
(architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
(computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
(computing) A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
(broadcasting) A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
(sports) A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

Examples of "stanza" in Sentences

The 15th stanza of the poem reads this.
The poem begins with the following stanzas.
A quatrain is a stanza or poem consisting of four lines.
The last stanza is just a simple rhyme in Iambic Pentameter.
The authors are unidentified in the case of a hundred stanzas.
Within the stanza, the reference to Arthur is proved by the rhyme.
In the seventh stanza, he is envious of the nightingale's immortality.
Each of the four lines of the first stanza is repeated later in the poem.
I missed the one where I had to select a stanza from the national anthem.
The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter.
The second line of the first stanza is the subject of the poem, a proper noun.
This stanza is the only one that, in both the letter text and the broadside version of Shelley's poem, replicates the idea of an entire stanza of The Devil's Thoughts by R. Southey and S.T. Coleridge (1799), which reads in a note to J.