#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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