stanzaic
English
Etymology
stanza + -ic
Adjective
stanzaic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to stanzas.
- 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:
- […] and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
- a couplet in stanzaic form
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Derived terms
- interstanzaic
- intrastanzaic