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Stanza

A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure.

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Antistrophe 76% connected

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines o…

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Couplet 76% connected

Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

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Envoy 76% connected

One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other…

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Octave 76% connected

The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.

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Quatrain 76% connected

A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.

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Sestet 76% connected

A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.

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Strophe 76% connected

In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the…

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Text 76% connected

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, o…

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Line 70% connected

Flax; linen.

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Poem 70% connected

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and…

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