Stanza vs Paragraphs - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between stanza and paragraphs

is that stanza is a unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse while paragraphs is plural of paragraph.

(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 .