GRE Word List
STANZA
a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe
The meaning of the word stanza is a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe.
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