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nouna fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poemtype of:part of:
Definition that contains stanza
- envoy a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
- ode a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- couplet a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
- quatrain a stanza of four lines
- spenser English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599)
- ballade a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
- rondel a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
- horatian ode an ode with several stanzas
- envoi a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
- rondeau a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas