The form of fourteen-line stanza adopted by Shakespeare is in no way peculiar to himself.
And that in itself is, as I have already said, a refinement upon the fourteen-line stanza of the earlier comic school of York, as used in the Noah.
This contribution in the nine-line stanza amounts to approximately one-fourth of the cycle; and, allowing for modifications due to oral and scribal transmission, is of one language and phraseology.
He naturalised the famous seven-line stanza, employed by Machault in several poems, one of which evidently furnished the refrain of Against Women Unconstant; and this is good evidence in favour of the genuineness of this Balade.
The Envoy to 'Fortune' also consists of a seven-line stanza, but the arrangement of the rimes is different, there being only two rimes in place of the usual three.
Moreover, this original 'Palamon' was written in the seven-line stanza; see notes to Anelida.
In this poem we have the earliest example, in English, of the famous 7-line stanza.
Chaucer's favourite 7-line stanza, often called the ballad-stanza, or simply balade in the MSS.
One point about this poem is its very peculiar metre; the 5-line stanza, riming a a b b a, is certainly rare.
This is susceptible of endless variety, commencing with two quatrains, or a six-line stanza and a couplet, or two triplets with a brace of rhyming lines, one after each triplet.
A single fourteen-line stanza of a certain arrangement of rhyme is a sonnet, but as the sonnet is scarcely versifiers' work, I will not occupy space by the lengthy explanation it would require.
The Alcaic is, like the Sapphic, a four-line stanza.
Three-Line Stanza Stanzas of three lines riming aaa (called tercets or triplets) are not very common.
The Envoy presents a very early example of the four-line stanza, similar to that employed in Gray's famous Elegy.
Note the change from the 8-line to the 7-line stanza.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "line stanza" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
