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stanza 1. Prosody a fixed number of verse lines arranged in a definite metrical pattern, forming a unit of a poem 2. US and Austral a half or a quarter in a football match How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Spenser invented for himself a new stanza of nine lines and made it famous, so that we call it after him, the Spenserian Stanza. The Spencerian stanza, with its rich variety of movement and its harmonious closes, long shut "Childe Harold" from me, and whenever I found a poem in any book which did not rhyme its second line with its first I read it unwillingly or not at all. THIS stanza from "The Raven" was recommended by James Russell Lowell as an inscription upon the Baltimore monument which marks the resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. |
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