Sentence examples for Stanzas from high-quality English sources.

• The poem consists of ten stanzas .

• The poems consisted of short monorhyme stanzas with a refrain.

• He found an organizing principle in the model of three-line stanzas.

• Remains is formed of eight stanzas .

• The poem is composed of three stanzas .

• The poem is structured in five, three-line stanzas.

• It contains 2,023 octosyllabic lines in 185 huitains (eight-line stanzas).

• Strictly, the ballade consists of three stanzas and a shortened final stanza.

Use Stanzas in a sentence.

• The standard virelai form has three stanzas, each preceded and followed by a refrain.

• Strictly, the ballade consists of three stanzas and a shortened final dedicatory stanza.

• Descort, a synonym for lai, a medieval Provençal lyric in which the stanzas are nonuniform.

• In To Autumn, John Keats paints three perfect autumnal landscapes in three powerful stanzas .

• Another variant, the cantar de pandeiro, is a Galician folk song arranged in three-line stanzas.

• In the first four stanzas the narrator describes several residents of his coastal resort town in Maine.

• The poem has some long stanzas and some short stanzas so these are when her life is hard and when her life is easy.

• Second to Manu is the Dharma-shastra of Yajnavalkya; its 1,013 stanzas are distributed under the three headings of good conduct, law, and expiation.

Stanzas sentence examples

• The earliest rondeaux had stanzas of two or three lines; later, especially in the 15th century, stanzas of four, five, or even six lines were common.

• Its standard form consisted in the 14th century of five stanzas of from 8 to 16 lines of equal measure, without refrain, but with an identical rhyme pattern in each stanza and an envoi using rhymes from the stanzas.

• The rondel often consists of 14 lines of 8 or 10 syllables divided into three stanzas (two quatrains and a sextet), with the first two lines of the first stanza serving as the refrain of the second and third stanzas.

• It did not use traditional lines or stanzas; but the metre was formed afresh for each poem and never used again in exactly the same form, though the metrical units from which the stanzas, or strophes, were built up were drawn from a common stock and the form of the strophe was usually related to the accompanying dance.