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Stanza vs Stichic - What's the difference?

stanza | stichic |

As a noun stanza

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

As an adjective stichic is

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

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

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    stichic

    English

    Adjective

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