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Sonnet vs Stanza - What's the difference?

sonnet | stanza |

As nouns the difference between sonnet and stanza

is that sonnet is a fixed verse form of italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes while stanza is room.

As a verb sonnet

is to compose sonnets.

sonnet

English

(wikipedia sonnet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

    • See also

    * poem * English sonnet * Italian sonnet * quatorzain

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compose sonnets.
  • * Milton
    • Strains that come almost to sonneting .

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    stanza

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
  • (architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
  • (computing) A structural element in XML
  • * 2009 , Tim Riley, Adam Goucher, Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software
    • Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza , it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document...
  • * 2009 , John Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome, Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security
    • Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas .

    Derived terms

    * stanzaic

    See also

    * strophe

    Anagrams

    * ----