stanza
noun/ˈstænzə/
/ˈstænzə/
(specialist)- a group of lines in a repeated pattern that form a unit in some types of poem synonym verseTopics Literature and writingc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Italian, literally ‘standing place’, also ‘stanza’.
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