For metrics, which is the discipline that deals with the study of the rhythmic formation of a poem, A stanza is each of the parts into which a poetic or musical composition is divided and which is made up of a series of prose verses and numbers appropriate to a certain and pre-established model, that is, the stanza is a series of verses that are found united by fixed criteria such as rhythm and rhyme.
The latter of the rhyme is the most characteristic of a stanza and what allows us to recognize them from the rest of the general prose.
exist various types of stanzas that will depend, for their classification, directly on the number of verses they contain.
Within those of two verses we find paired, joy, hallelujah. Those with three verses include the triplet, the triplet, the soleá. Those with four verses are cuarteto, redondilla, copla, cuarteta, Seguidilla, cuaderna via and serventesio. Five-line limerick, royal limerick, double limerick, major art quintet. Of six verses, sextet or sestina, sextilla, broken foot couplet. Among those of seven verses is the composed sequence. Of eight verses are the real octave, couplet of major art and leaflet and finally of ten verses we find decima or spinel and the chamberga sequence.
This that we described above, in terms of the formality of the term that concerns us, inasmuch as, no longer for the metric, but for the common people, a stanza is that part of a popular song, which is easy to do. repeat and remember in time.
