stanza

stanza
    n 1: a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
    

Stanza \Stan"za\ (st[a^]n"z[.a]), n.; pl. {Stanzas} (-z[.a]z).
   [It. stanza a room, habitation, a stanza, i. e., a stop, fr.
   L. stans, p. pr. of stare to stand. See {Stand}, and cf.
   {Estancia}, {Stance}, {Stanchion}.]
   1. 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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            Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of
            verse, or stanza, in every ode.       --Dryden.
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   2. (Arch.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or
      chamber.
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68 Moby Thesaurus words for "stanza":
      Spenserian stanza, anacrusis, antistrophe, bass passage, book,
      bourdon, bridge, burden, cadence, canto, chorus, coda, couplet,
      development, distich, division, envoi, epode, exposition, figure,
      folderol, harmonic close, heptastich, hexastich, interlude,
      intermezzo, introductory phrase, line, measure, monostich,
      movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, octastich, octave,
      octet, ornament, ottava rima, part, passage, pentastich, period,
      phrase, quatrain, refrain, resolution, response, rhyme royal,
      ritornello, section, septet, sestet, sextet, statement, stave,
      strain, strophe, syllable, tailpiece, tercet, terza rima,
      tetrastich, triplet, tristich, tutti, tutti passage, variation,
      verse