#stanza  a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  supertype:  textual_matter__textualmatter__text  the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text"
  part of:  poem
  subtype:  couplet  a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
     subtype:  closed_couplet  a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit
     subtype:  heroic_couplet  a couplet written in an elevated style
  subtype:  octave.stanza  a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse
  subtype:  sestet  a rhythmic group of six lines of verse
  subtype:  envoy__envoi  a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
  subtype:  quatrain  a stanza of four lines
     subtype:  elegiac_stanza__elegiacstanza  a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme
     subtype:  heroic_stanza  a quatrain written in elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab
  subtype:  Spenserian_stanza  a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c; "the spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene"
  subtype:  strophe  one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama
  subtype:  antistrophe  the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem
  subtype:  rhyme_royal__rhymeroyal  a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer
  subtype:  ottava_rima  a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc

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