Stanza

How many syllables in Stanza?

stanza has 2 syllables

Split Stanza into syllables?

stan-za

Definition of Stanza

A stanza is a group of lines in a poem that are separated from other groups of lines by a space.

How should Stanza divide into syllables

The word 'stanza' has 2 syllables. The first syllable has a consonant 's' and a vowel 'a', and the second syllable has a consonant 'z' and a vowel 'a'.

Part of Speech - Stanza

Noun

The poem has four stanzas.

Sentences with Stanza

  • The first stanza talks about the sun rising.
  • The poem is broken up into stanzas.
  • The last stanza of the song is my favorite.
  • The poem has three stanzas that each tell a different story.
  • The second stanza rhymes with the fourth stanza.
  • The stanza is the building block of a poem.
  • The poet used a different rhyme scheme in each stanza.
  • The first and third stanzas have the same number of lines.
  • The final stanza of the poem is a beautiful conclusion.
  • The fourth stanza has a surprise ending.

Quotes with Stanza

  • "A stanza is like a pocket, in which a poet can keep his or her words." - Sharon Creech
  • "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." - Paul Valery
  • "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." - Robert Frost
  • "The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth." - Jean Cocteau
  • "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." - Carl Sandburg
  • "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." - William Wordsworth
  • "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep." - Salman Rushdie
  • "A stanza has been said to be a unit of thought. It may be an essential unit, but it is a bad one, for it may be split in two." - Robert Frost
  • "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." - W.H. Auden
  • "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost

Number of characters in Stanza

6 ( s, t, a, n, z, a )

Unique letters in Stanza

5 ( s, t, a, n, z )

Stanza Backwards

aznats

Phonetic Transcription of Stanza

IPA (International): ˈstænzʌ

ARA (American): ˈstænzʌ

EPA (English): ˈstænzʌ

STAE-NZAH