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Group of lines within a poem
In poetry, a stanza (/ˈstænzə/; from Italian stanza, Italian: [ˈstantsa]; lit. 'room') is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by
Stanza
Indian student housing company
Stanza Living is the common brand name for Dtwelve Spaces Private Limited. It provides fully-managed shared living accommodations to students and young
Stanza_Living
National anthem of Germany
only the third stanza was reconfirmed as the national anthem. It is discouraged, although not illegal, to perform the first or second stanza. Its phrase
Deutschlandlied
Compact car produced by Nissan (1973-1992)
Nissan Stanza. All three models bore the A10 series identifier, and were built in Japan at the Hiratsuka and Yokosuka assembly plants. The Stanza was exclusive
Nissan_Violet
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up stanza in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A stanza is a unit of poetry within a larger poem. Stanza may also refer to: Lexcycle Stanza, a program
Stanza_(disambiguation)
Verse form by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin
Onegin stanza (Russian: онегинская строфа oneginskaya strofa), sometimes "Pushkin sonnet", refers to the verse form popularized (or invented) by the Russian
Onegin_stanza
Four-line stanza form
The Sapphic stanza, named after the Ancient Greek poet Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed
Sapphic_stanza
The Burns stanza is a verse form named after the Scottish poet Robert Burns, who used it in some fifty poems. It was not, however, invented by Burns, and
Burns_stanza
End times in Norse mythology
aldar rök (aldar means age, 'end of an age') from a stanza of Vafþrúðnismál, tíva rök from two stanzas of Vafþrúðnismál, þá er regin deyja ('when the gods
Ragnarök
Four-line stanza form
Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry. The Alcaic stanza consists
Alcaic_stanza
Verse form created by Edmund Spenser
The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in
Spenserian_stanza
Four-line poem or stanza
A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines. Existing in a variety of forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic
Quatrain
Immense tree in Norse cosmology
men. In stanza 27, the völva details that she is aware that "Heimdallr's hearing is couched beneath the bright-nurtured holy tree." In stanza 45, Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil
One of the Raphael Rooms in Vatican City
The Stanza della Segnatura is one of the rooms of the Raphael Rooms in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican. It was the first to be decorated by Raphael, between
Stanza_della_Segnatura
Royal and national anthem of Iran (1933–1979)
Instrumental version (first stanza) performed by the United States Navy Band "Sorude Shāhanshāhiye Irān" with santoor (also first stanza) "Sorud-e Shâhanshâhi-ye
Imperial_Anthem_of_Iran
Adaptation of the Sapphic stanza for the Polish language
The Sapphic stanza is the only stanzaic form adapted from Greek and Latin poetry to be used widely in Polish literature. It was introduced during the
Sapphic stanza in Polish poetry
Sapphic_stanza_in_Polish_poetry
Four-line poetic verse, known as a quatrain
poetry, a ballad stanza is a type of a four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. The ballad stanza consists of a total
Ballad_stanza
Rooms in the Vatican frescoed by Raphael
Constantine"), the Stanza di Eliodoro ("Room of Heliodorus"), the Stanza della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura"), and the Stanza dell'Incendio del Borgo
Raphael_Rooms
1751 poem by Thomas Gray
following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742. Originally titled Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard, the poem was completed when Gray was living
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard
Topics referred to by the same term
una stanza (Italian for 'Heaven in a Room') may refer to: "Il cielo in una stanza" (song), a 1960 song by Mina and Gino Paoli Il cielo in una stanza (album)
Il_cielo_in_una_stanza
1850 poem by Tennyson
Law Lushington, in 1842. Written in iambic tetrameter (four-line ABBA stanzas), the poetical metre of In Memoriam A.H.H. creates the tonal effects of
In_Memoriam_A.H.H.
1960 single by Mina
"Il cielo in una stanza" (Italian pronunciation: [il ˈtʃɛːlo in una sˈtantsa]; "Heaven in a Room") is a song written by Gino Paoli and originally recorded
Il_cielo_in_una_stanza_(song)
Poem by William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis stanza, after this poem. This form was also used by Edmund Spenser and Thomas Lodge. The poem consists of 199 stanzas or 1,194 lines.
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare poem)
Venus_and_Adonis_(Shakespeare_poem)
47-mile footpath in northern England
The Stanza Stones Trail is a 47-mile (76 km) walking route from Marsden to Ilkley, along the Pennine watershed in northern England, linking six poems by
Stanza_Stones_Trail
Software company that made electronic book reading software
company that made electronic book reading software. They were responsible for Stanza, which ran on the iPhone, iPod Touch, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh
Lexcycle
Primeval being in Norse mythology
the 13th century, and in the poetry of skalds. Taken together, several stanzas from four poems collected in the Poetic Edda refer to Ymir as a primeval
Ymir
Christian hymn
in 2019. Boberg wrote the poem "O Store Gud" ("O Great God") with nine stanzas. It was first published in 1886. The inspiration for the poem came when
How_Great_Thou_Art
2001 film by Nanni Moretti
The Son's Room (Italian: La stanza del figlio) is a 2001 Italian drama film directed, written and produced by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological
The_Son's_Room
Latter Day Saint movement hymn
This stanza is rarely sung today as most hymnals have omitted stanzas four and five. The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite) has kept this stanza as the
The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning
The_Spirit_of_God_Like_a_Fire_Is_Burning
Fixed verse form of poetry
consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line
Sestina
Fresco by Raphael
the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the Renaissance". The Stanza della Segnatura was the first of the rooms to be decorated, and The School
The_School_of_Athens
Poetry festival in St. Andrews, Scotland
StAnza is a poetry festival that takes place annually in March in the university town of St Andrews, Scotland. The Times newspaper referred to StAnza
Stanza_Poetry_Festival
1794 poem by William Blake
eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? "The Tyger" is six stanzas in length with each stanza containing four lines. The meter of the poem is largely trochaic
The_Tyger
Poem by Marge Piercy
society. The first stanza begins with a girl being born, fitting perfectly into a mold provided by the society she was born into. The stanza lists toys that
Barbie_Doll_(poem)
Legendary hall in Norse mythology
direct references in stanza 32 of the Völuspá, where the god Baldr's death is referred to as the "woe of Valhalla", and in stanzas 1 to 3 of Hyndluljóð
Valhalla
1916 poem by W. B. Yeats
time. The fourth and last stanza of the poem resumes the first person narrative of the first and second stanzas. The stanza returns to the image of the
Easter,_1916
1821 poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
and best-known works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley
Adonais
1923 poem by Robert Lee Frost
second stanza, harder sounds — like k and qu — begin to break the whisper. As the narrator's thought is disrupted by the horse in the third stanza, a hard
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stopping_by_Woods_on_a_Snowy_Evening
Greek and Latin poetic form
(1965). (= Nisbet & Hubbard's 2nd archilochian) The first archilochian stanza consists of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic hemiepes: – u u
Archilochian
2021 Italian film
The Guest Room (Italian: La stanza) is a 2021 Italian thriller-drama film directed by Stefano Lodovichi. Produced by Lucky Red, the film was distributed
The_Guest_Room_(film)
Poem by William Wordsworth
Volumes (1807). The poem was completed in two parts, with the first four stanzas written among a series of poems composed in 1802 about childhood. The first
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality
Norse goddess
locations. Odin mentions the location Þrymheimr sixth in a single stanza. In the stanza, Odin details that the jötunn Þjazi once lived there, and that now
Skaði
Poem by Dylan Thomas
first line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas, and the third line of the first stanza serves as the last line
Do not go gentle into that good night
Do_not_go_gentle_into_that_good_night
National anthem of Greece and Cyprus
music by Nikolaos Mantzaros in 1828. Consisting of 158 stanzas in total, its two first stanzas officially became the national anthem of Greece in 1864
Hymn_to_Liberty
Norse deity
(stanza 2 of Lokasenna, stanza 41 of Hyndluljóð, and stanza 26 of Fjölsvinnsmál), and sections of the Prose Edda (chapter 32 of Gylfaginning, stanza 8
Loki
Communications protocol for message-oriented middleware
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (abbreviation XMPP, originally named Jabber) is an open communication protocol designed for instant messaging
XMPP
1960 studio album by Mina
Il cielo in una stanza is the second studio album by Italian singer Mina, released in June 1960 through Italdisc [it]. The album is a compilation of previously
Il cielo in una stanza (album)
Il_cielo_in_una_stanza_(album)
Poem in the Poetic Edda
"victory-urger", "inciter to victory") It occurs only in Fáfnismál (stanza 44) and in stanza 4 of the Sigrdrífumál. In Fáfnismál, it could be a common noun
Sigrdrífumál
Pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song
be used to: Control flow: If every line has the same rhyme (AAAA), the stanza will read as having a very quick flow, whereas a rhyme scheme like ABCABC
Rhyme_scheme
English poet (1792–1822)
depressed and almost suicidal: a state of mind reflected in his poem "Stanzas written in Dejection – December 1818, Near Naples". While in Naples, Shelley
Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Portuguese epic poem by Luís de Camões
(1469–1524). The ten cantos of the poem are in ottava rima and total 1,102 stanzas. Written in Homeric fashion, the poem focuses mainly on a fantastic interpretation
Os_Lusíadas
English nursery rhyme
presented over the following century, the rhyming scheme of the six-line stanzas is AABCCB and they are trochaic in rhythm. Alternatively, when given the
Jack_and_Jill
Norse deity
mentioned in the poems Völuspá, Vafthrúdnismál, Grímnismál, and Lokasenna. In stanzas 54 and 55 of the poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that his son Víðarr will
Víðarr
Poem by John Donne
Sonnets, following his death. 36 lines long, the poem opens with: In these stanzas, Donne compares the parting of two lovers to a death, desiring the lovers'
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
A_Valediction:_Forbidding_Mourning
1812–1818 narrative poem by Lord Byron
First, Stanza XXXIX (lines 423–431) Lyrics in a different form occasionally punctuate these stanzas: the farewell to England following Canto I's stanza 13
Childe_Harold's_Pilgrimage
Repetition of consonant sounds in literature
forms Stanzas Alcaic stanza Ballad stanza Biolet Burns stanza Chaubola Cinquain Couplet Ghazal Quatorzain Quatrain Quintain Rhyme royal Sapphic stanza Sestain
Alliteration
Novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin
1837 publication. Almost the entire work is made up of 389 fourteen-line stanzas (5,446 lines in all) of iambic tetrameter with the unusual rhyme scheme
Eugene_Onegin
Epic poem attributed to Homer
oral Homeric style – "stock epithets" and "reiteration" (words, phrases, stanzas) – established that these formulae were artifacts of oral tradition easily
Iliad
Home of the elves in Nordic mythology
retrieved 2025-10-12 Grímnismál (ON), Stanza 5. Bellows 2004, Grimnismol stanza 5. Bellows 2004, Grimnismol stanza 5 notes. Gylfaginning (ON), Chapter 17
Álfheimr
Traditional song
number of stanzas varying in later publications. However, there is evidence to suggest that only the continuation after the first three stanzas was the
Old_Mother_Hubbard
Narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott
spills the foremost foeman's life, / That party conquers in the strife' (stanza 6; lines 2524–25). Roderick asks if any of the local friendly clans will
The_Lady_of_the_Lake_(poem)
Phrase referring to historical incidents
led to the creation of the United States. It originates from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 poem "Concord Hymn". The phrase has subsequently
Shot_heard_round_the_world
Body of literary work by Ancient Greek poet Sappho
Hephaestion but it is unclear whether this was an entire stanza or part of a three- or four-line stanza. Fragment 103 preserves 10 incipits of poems by Sappho
Poetry_of_Sappho
Official residence of the Pope in Vatican City
the Stanza di Eliodoro ("Room of Heliodorus"), the Stanza della Segnatura (the earliest and the most admired) ("Room of the Signature") and the Stanza dell'Incendio
Apostolic_Palace
God among the Vanir in Norse mythology
the wise Vanir. In stanza 16 of the poem Grímnismál, Njörðr is described as having a hall in Nóatún made for himself. The stanza describes Njörðr as
Njörðr
Niggun of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim
The Niggun of Four Stanzas or the Niggun of Daled Bavos ("Niggun of Four Gates"), is a wordless tune of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim, composed by the
Niggun_of_Four_Stanzas
Mystery play
pageants use a distinctive stanza, sometimes called the Wakefield Stanza (see below). The pageants that manifest the Wakefield Stanza are noted for comedy,
Wakefield_Mystery_Plays
Old Norse poem
sources. The Hávamál is edited in 165 stanzas by Bellows (1936). Other editions give 164 stanzas, combining Bellow's stanzas 11 and 12, as the manuscript abbreviates
Hávamál
Stanza rhyming ABABABCC
Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of
Ottava_rima
Eddic poem
pointing at the similarity of stanza 11 in Baldrs draumar and stanzas 32-33 in Völuspá. Additionally, the 14th stanza of Þrymskviða is almost identical
Baldrs_draumar
"Elegiac Stanzas" is a poem by William Wordsworth, originally published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). Its full title is "Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested
Elegiac_Stanzas
(first stanza, first two lines), Zulu (first stanza, last two lines), Sesotho (second stanza), Afrikaans (third stanza), and English (final stanza). The
National anthem of South Africa
National_anthem_of_South_Africa
Type of poetic metre
metre is "less regular and more conversational" than common metre. In each stanza, ballad form typically needs to rhyme only the second lines of the couplets
Common_metre
Historic site in Karnataka, India
of five stanzas written out in ten lines in the Kannada script. Stanza 2 (Lines 3 and 4) consists of a Sanskrit śloka. Of the remaining stanzas, all except
Kappe_Arabhatta
1972 film by Sergio Martino
Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Italian: Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave) is a 1972 Italian giallo film directed
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Your_Vice_Is_a_Locked_Room_and_Only_I_Have_the_Key
18th century social commentary
The poem consists of pairs of rhyming couplets, sometimes only one stanza. The 4 stanza version most often quoted: The law locks up the man or woman Who
The_Goose_and_the_Common
Poetic form
first tercet repeated alternately at the end of each subsequent stanza until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example
Villanelle
Hindu hymn
Hindu religious hymn (stotra) dedicated to god Shiva. Comprising five stanzas (ślokas), it is regarded to have been composed by the philosopher Adi Shankara
Shiva_Panchakshara_Stotra
French poem
originally contained 9 stanzas. There are several hypotheses regarding the reasons for Georges Brassens to ommit two stanzas from the poem. The generally
Les_Passantes
Shield in Nordic mythology
Grímnismál (ON), Stanza 37 & 38. Orchard 2011, p. 56, Grímnismál: The lay of Grímnir, stanza 37 & 38. Bellows 2004, Grimnismol stanza 37 & 38. Dronke 2011
Svalinn
Anisometric verse, known also as heterometric stanza, is a type of poetry where the stanza is made up of lines having unequal metrical length. The number
Anisometric_verse
1888 poem by William Ernest Henley
being passed the last stanza, written with rat droppings on toilet paper, from fellow prisoner David Hatcher. The poem's last stanza was quoted by U.S. President
Invictus
Norse deity
the first stanza of the poem, the undead völva reciting the poem calls out for listeners to be silent and refers to the Norse god: This stanza has led to
Heimdall
Object in Norse mythology and modern magical stave
to stanza 15. Fáfnismál (ON), Stanza 16 & 17. Bellows 2004, Fafnismol: stanzas 16 & 17. Fáfnismál (ON), Stanza 19. Bellows 2004, Fafnismol: stanzas 19
Helm_of_Awe
1797 poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in 14 stanzas. The poem begins as an old sorcerer departs his workshop, leaving his apprentice
The_Sorcerer's_Apprentice
2012 American film
The Butterfly Room is a 2012 American-Italian thriller-horror film directed by Jonathan Zarantonello. It is based on Zarantonello's novel Alice dalle 4
The_Butterfly_Room
Greek lyric poem by Sappho
at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The Ode to Aphrodite comprises seven Sapphic stanzas. It begins with an invocation of the goddess Aphrodite, which is followed
Ode_to_Aphrodite
Norse god of wisdom
poems Völuspá and Sigrdrífumál. In Völuspá, Mímir is mentioned in two stanzas. Stanza 28 references Odin's sacrifice of his eye to Mímir's Well, and states
Mímir
Area in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel
The Room of Tears (Italian: Stanza delle Lacrime), also called the Crying Room (Italian: Stanza del Pianto), is a small antechamber within the Sistine
Room_of_Tears
Motor vehicle
MPV or a compact MPV. It was also marketed as the Multi in Canada and the Stanza Wagon in the United States. In Japan, it was exclusive to Nissan Bluebird
Nissan_Prairie
Christian hymn used in music for Requiem
the Catholic Requiem Mass. Its text comes from the Latin 18th and 19th stanzas of the sequence. Latin Lacrimosa dies illa Qua resurget ex favilla Judicandus
Lacrimosa
French revolutionary war song
musical tableau: each of the seven stanzas is sung by a different character or group of characters: The first stanza is the discourse of a deputy cheering
Chant_du_départ
traditions of poetry Prosody: the principles of metrical structure in poetry Stanza: a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem. (cf
Glossary_of_poetry_terms
Enchantress-goddess in Greek mythology
Dreams (1900), the first stanza of which relates the usual story of men turned into swine by her spell. But then a second stanza presents a sensuous portrait
Circe
Ode (poem) by Friedrich Schiller
a slightly revised version changed two lines of the first stanza and omitted the last stanza. "Ode to Joy" is best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven
Ode_to_Joy
Spanish/Mexican traditional folk song
genre. The song's melody is widely known and there are many alternative stanzas. The song consists of verse-and-refrain (strophe-antistrophe) pairs, with
La_Cucaracha
Poetic line of eleven syllables
a Sapphic stanza, though it was also sometimes used in stichic verse, for example by Seneca and Boethius. Sappho wrote many of the stanzas subsequently
Hendecasyllable
Tamil collection of poems
are a hundred stanzas plus a காப்பு (Kāppu, protection) verse for Ganesha and a final பயன் (Payaṉ, outcome), thus a total of 102 stanzas that are included
Abirami_Antati
Founder of Buddhism
Dhamma and Discipline proclaimed by the Tathagata." AN 3.129 "In a favourite stanza quoted several times in the Pali Canon: "The Kshatriya is the best among
The_Buddha
Poetic form used by Greek lyric poets
Choliamb Aeolic verse Choriamb Glyconic Asclepiad (poetry) Sapphic stanza Alcaic stanza Ionic metre Anacreontics Galliambic verse Sotadean metre Dochmiac
Elegiac_couplet
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