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stan·za
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verse
(not in technical use) a stanza. -
elegiac stanza
a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming -
virelay
an old French form of short poem, composed of short lines running on two rhymes and having two opening lines recurring at intervals. -
ballad stanza
a four-line stanza, often used in ballads, in which the second and fourth lines rhyme and have three stresses each and the first and third lines are unrhymed and have four stresses each -
cabaletta
a short aria with a repetitive rhythm -
common measure
the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b