How to pronounce stanza
Listen to stanza in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“stanza” in real sentences
64 clips in the index · 1 British · 10 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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some repetition here stanza after stanza after stanza on jabberwocky.xsl
CS259 · hear it here
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It's also the only sentence that spans two stanzas, stanza two and stanza three.
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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different types of powers forms a stanza in that poem.
British Library · hear it here
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never forget the smile on her face when I recited the last stanza
The Moth · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of stanza. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.