Stanza

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2. "A group of four lines in some Greek and Latin meters."
 * Definition:: **1. "Consists of two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme and are used like paragraphs in a story."

Origin::
 * "group of rhymed verse lines," 1580s, from It. stanza "verse of a poem," originally "standing, stopping place," from V.L. *stantia "a stanza of verse," so called from the stop at the end of it, from L. stans (gen. stantis ), prp. of stare "to stand"**

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 * See also:: **
 * [Meter] [Rhyme] [Pattern]**
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMzV0-L2sI**


 * Examples ** from text:

1) " 'Oh! what hairy arms you've got, Grandmother!'

'All the better to hug you, my child.'

'Oh! what a big tongue you've got, Grandmother!'

'All the better for answering, child.' "

- **"The True History of Little Goldenhood"** Andrew Lang, //The Red Fairy Book//

2) "Run run run as fast as you can.

You can't catch me.

I'm the stinky cheese man!"

- **"The Stinky Cheese Man"** Jon Scieszka, //The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales//

(Definition taken from: Google Definitions: //google.com// and "Stanza": types-of-poetry.org.uk)

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