A similar parallelism is apparent in the odd lines of each stanza.
Notice the effect of the rhyme combining the first and fourth lines of each stanza.
It consists of twenty-two capitula or stanzas, each stanza consisting of six lines, except the first which being in honour of the Holy Trinity has seven, and each line has sixteen syllables.
There is a preface, or introduction, to the whole poem, and a brief notice of the title and subject matter at the head of each stanza.
Each stanza consists of four strophes or lines, each line of fifteen syllables.
The number of the lines in each stanzais optional, but it should not usually be more than eleven or less than eight.
The first two lines of each stanza may be read more slowly and with a fuller tone of voice than the rest of the stanza.
What part of the year is described in each stanza?
What is the effect of repeating the words to-day and to-morrow, in the fourth and eighth lines of each stanza?
That all the woods may answer and their echo ring, repeated in each stanza as a burden together with the word sing which ends the preceding verse, has six measures, the rest of the stanza consisting of three- and five-foot lines.
Here the frons is connected with the cauda, which recurs in each stanza as a kind of refrain, by means of concatenatio.
How does the Shading of these lines compare with that of the last two of each stanza?
What words express the central ideas in each stanza, and at the same time form a contrast with one another?
What Inflection is used in the first four lines of each stanza?
What is the Inflection on the negative statements in the first two lines of each stanza?
That Sunny Smile," by John Russell, is a cleverly optimistic bit of verse whose rhythm is very facile, but which would be improved by the addition of two syllables to the third and sixth lines of each stanza.
This is not a technical defect, since the plan of construction is well maintained throughout; but we believe a poem of this type requires more than one rhyme to each stanza of eight lines.
Moonlight on the River," by Ida Cochran Haughton, is an exquisite sentimental poem, each stanza of which ends with the same expression.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "each stanza" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
