stanzaic

English

Etymology

From stanza +‎ -ic.

Adjective

stanzaic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to stanzas.
   • 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur‎^[1], 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

Derived terms

• interstanzaic
• intrastanzaic