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Relating to an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.

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  • Toledo inclines toward regular stanzaic form, a sense of order.
  • On the various kinds of stanzaic structure, see pages 88 ff., below.
  • It also shares a similar stanzaic structure, notational apparatus, and episodic form.
  • It has not been very successfully used in English, except in the stanzaic arrangement of
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