On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Stanzas. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Stanzas meaning
plural of stanza
Using Stanzas
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of stanza
- In the example corpus, stanzas often appears in combinations such as: stanzas of, stanzas and, two stanzas.
Context around Stanzas
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stanzas
- In this selection, "stanzas" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, two, line, 158, ordered, map and organized stand out and add context to how "stanzas" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and ensuing stanzas he was and and individual stanzas can vary. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stanzas" sits close to words such as abattoir, adrien and agitations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stanzas
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Example This short poem by Emily Dickinson has two stanzas of four lines each. (14 words)
Each of the 15 stanzas lasts 56 seconds, and the last stanza has a Ritenuto. (15 words)
When he came back out for the fourth and ensuing stanzas, he was wearing his usual number. (17 words)
A "double sestina" is the name given to either: two sets of six six-line stanzas, with a three-line envoy (for a total of 75 lines), or twelve twelve-line stanzas, with a six-line envoy (for a total of 150 lines). (43 words)
By 1686 he had definitely established the "Italian overture" form (second edition of Dal male il bene), and had abandoned the ground bass and the binary form air in two stanzas in favour of the ternary form or da capo type of air. (43 words)
Attestations Hvergelmir is attested in the following works: Poetic Edda Hvergelmir receives a single mention in the Poetic Edda, found in the poem Grímnismál: This stanza is followed by three stanzas consisting mainly of the names of 42 rivers. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A "double sestina" is the name given to either: two sets of six six-line stanzas, with a three-line envoy (for a total of 75 lines), or twelve twelve-line stanzas, with a six-line envoy (for a total of 150 lines).
Today, two versions exist: one with 39 stanzas and one with 40, although with some of the stanzas ordered differently.
The in-between of these stanzas map Black joy in all the hues of emotions, the calendars of transformation, and the temporalities of infinity.
The Greek national anthem, Hymn To Liberty, is based on a poem by Dionysios Solomos that consists of 158 stanzas.
The title-lines, first: the lack of a hyphen between “drear” and “nighted” adds to the slow weight of the words opening stanzas one and two.
While most such documents were set in a ferment of gallotanic acid and iron sulfate, these few stanzas I found were writ in the undistilled juice of pure genius.
Her piece, entitled “Quad Relay,” is a mural based on sestinas, a complex form of mathematical poetry structured by six stanzas organized in numbered sequences.
When he came back out for the fourth and ensuing stanzas, he was wearing his usual number.
At 49 years old, Cube’s narrative stanzas tackling sociopolitical issues head-on stands as a sharp contrast to today’s young SoundCloud rappers’ brand of often unclear, lyrically mundane mumble rap.
Here are a small collection of singular lines, stanzas, and notions possessing the power to spring the most moving of thoughts and feelings into the humming imagination of the reader.
As a reference, Just-As-High quotes the second of the two stanzas in Grímnismál that mention the bridge (see above).
A "tritina" is a contraction of the sestina to three stanzas of three lines (tercets), with a one-line envoy.
Attestations Hvergelmir is attested in the following works: Poetic Edda Hvergelmir receives a single mention in the Poetic Edda, found in the poem Grímnismál: This stanza is followed by three stanzas consisting mainly of the names of 42 rivers.
But the clearest demonstration of his mastery of this art form is probably the Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia, a brief comic-heroic poem of eight stanzas of eight lines each.
By 1686 he had definitely established the "Italian overture" form (second edition of Dal male il bene), and had abandoned the ground bass and the binary form air in two stanzas in favour of the ternary form or da capo type of air.
Each books consists of about 1000 lines and individual stanzas can vary between 5 and 60 lines.
Each of the 15 stanzas lasts 56 seconds, and the last stanza has a Ritenuto.
Example This short poem by Emily Dickinson has two stanzas of four lines each.
Fitch et al. 2012 Form The villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines ( tercets ) followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain ) for a total of nineteen lines.
Gasparov 1996 p. 159 It consists of three lines that include all six of the line-endings words of the preceding stanzas.
Common combinations with stanzas
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stanzas of 8×
- stanzas and 6×
- two stanzas 5×
- stanzas in 5×
- three stanzas 5×
- the stanzas 4×
- of stanzas 4×
- stanzas with 2×
- these stanzas 2×
- opening stanzas 2×