stanza• If a stanza from Sappho, for instance, were to fall on your foot, it might hurt.• This is an excellentcontrast between stanzas.• Adding insult to injury, a doublecrossawaits our lucklesshero in the finalstanza.• Athough the text is sometimes represented in stanzas, it does not appear as verse in all the manuscripts.• In stanza three it appears once again.• Each kid would sing a two-line stanza, making it up as he went.• The sun is a very good symbol and can be used to show the contrast in the tone between the stanzas.
Originstanza
(1500-1600)Italian“place to stay, room, stanza”, from Vulgar Latinstantia; → STANCE