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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