stanzalike
stanzalike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a stanza.
Adjective
stanzalike (comparative more stanzalike, superlative most stanzalike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a stanza.
- On the page, “Me” is irregular but—except for a prominent drawing of a two-toned hieroglyphic eye—not radically unusual: the lines are consistently left-justified; their length varies from one to a dozen syllables; they cluster in stanzalike units anywhere from one to six lines long that are...1997, Lynn Keller, chapter 6, in Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 281
Forms of stanzalike
| comparative | more stanzalike |
|---|---|
| superlative | most stanzalike |
Origin of stanzalike
From stanza + -like.
Questions about stanzalike
- What does stanzalike mean?
- Stanzalike means resembling or characteristic of a stanza.
- What part of speech is stanzalike?
- Stanzalike is an adjective.
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