Stanza

In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. The term means "room" in Italian.

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Poetry - Poem - Italian

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A stanza may have a self-contained rhyme scheme or be made up of a fixed number of lines (see distich/couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain/quintain, sestet) or, as in much modern poetry, may be an arbitrary unit defined by publishing conventions such as white space or punctuation.

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Rhyme scheme - Distich - Couplet - Tercet - Quatrain - Cinquain/quintain - Sestet

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