Stanza
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In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. The term means "room" in Italian. A stanza may have a self-contained rhyme scheme or be made up a fixed number of lines (see distich/couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain/quintain, sestet) or in modern poetry be an arbitrary unit defined by publishing conventions such as white space or punctuation.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Stanza" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanza, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
