All 8 Uses
stanza
in
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
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- by shewing, as in the Stanzas entitled WE ARE SEVEN, the perplexity and obscurity which in childhood attend our notion of death, or rather our utter inability to admit that notion;†
stanzas = parts of a poem or song where each part consists of a fixed number of lines
- My meaning will be rendered perfectly intelligible by referring my Reader to the Poems entitled POOR SUSAN and the CHILDLESS FATHER, particularly to the last Stanza of the latter Poem.†
*stanza = part of a poem or song that has other such parts--each part consisting of a fixed number of lines
- Such verses have been triumphed over in parodies of which Dr. Johnson's Stanza is a fair specimen.†
- Immediately under these lines I will place one of the most justly admired stanzas of the "Babes in the Wood."†
stanzas = parts of a poem or song where each part consists of a fixed number of lines
- In both these stanzas the words, and the order of the words, in no respect differ from the most unimpassioned conversation.†
- There are words in both, for example, "the Strand," and "the Town," connected with none but the most familiar ideas; yet the one stanza we admit as admirable, and the other as a fair example of the superlatively contemptible.†
stanza = part of a poem or song that has other such parts--each part consisting of a fixed number of lines
- Not from the metre, not from the language, not from the order of the words; but the matter expressed in Dr. Johnson's stanza is contemptible.†
- The proper method of treating trivial and simple verses to which Dr. Johnson's stanza would be a fair parallelism is not to say, this is a bad kind of poetry, or this is not poetry; but this wants sense; it is neither interesting in itself, nor can lead to any thing interesting; the images neither originate in that same state of feeling which arises out of thought, nor can excite thought or feeling in the Reader.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(stanza) part of a poem or song that has other such parts--each part consisting of a fixed number of lines
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)