stanza (n.)
- antistrophe
- book
- bourdon
- bridge
- burden
- cadence
- canto
- chorus
- coda
- couplet
- development
- distich
- division
- envoi
- exposition
- figure
- folderol
- interlude
- intermezzo
- line
- measure
- movement
- octave
- octet
- ornament
- part
- passage
- period
- phrase
- quatrain
- refrain
- resolution
- response
- section
- septet
- sestet
- sextet
- statement
- stave
- strain
- strophe
- syllable
- tailpiece
- tercet
- triplet
- variation
- verse
Is there a parson much bemused in beer,
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer,
A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,
Who pens a stanza when he should engross?