Stanza vs. Stichic

Stanzanoun

A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.

Stanzanoun

(architecture) An apartment or division in a building.

Stanzanoun

(computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

Stanzanoun

(sports) A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

Stanzanoun

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.

Stanzanoun

An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.

Stanzanoun

a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

Stanza

In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian stanza [ˈstantsa], ) is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, though stanzas are not strictly required to have either.

Stichicadjective

Describing verse that is not divided into stanzas, but consists of lines all having the same metrical form

Stichicadjective

Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.

Stichic

Poetry made up of lines of the same approximate meter and length, not broken up into stanzas, is called stichic (as opposed to stanzaic, e.g.). Most poetry from the Old English period is considered stichic.