ETYM Italian stanza a room, habitation, a stanza, i.e., a stop, from Latin stans, p. pr. of stare to stand. Related to Stand, Estancia, Stance, Stanchion.
A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
Group of lines in a poem. A stanza serves the same function in poetry as a paragraph in prose. Stanzas are often of uniform length and separated by a blank line.
Each stanza has a set, repeatable pattern of meter and rhyme.