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Stanza vs. Verse
Stanza
Examples:
The poem's final stanza revealed the author's hopes.Each stanza tells a distinct part of the story.She recited the stanza with great emotion and clarity.
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Verse
/vɜːs/Examples:
Apparent be thy power in these brief verses!“Go on with the next verse.”One verses four."
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Ways to tell them apart:
- A verse is a single line of poetry, whereas a stanza is a group of verses forming a unit within a poem.
- Think of a verse as a sentence and a stanza as a paragraph within the poem.
- The word stanza comes from the Italian word for room, indicating a framed group of lines within the structure of a poem.
- Verses can stand alone or be part of a stanza, but stanzas are always a collection of verses.
- A stanza often has a regular rhyme and meter, unlike a single verse.
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