“Stanza” refers to the prop­er­ties of the sequences of lines within a poem (i.e. prop­er­ties of stan­zas and fixed verse forms) and is con­sti­tuted by three para­me­ters: “Stanza or fixed form”, “Clausula” (the sequence of line end­ings in a stanza or a stanza-like pat­tern) and “Rhyme” (the rhyme sequence in a stanza or a stanza-like pat­tern). Other aspects of catalexis and rhyme do not apply to the stanza.

This sec­tion is a mockup of a future index of stan­zaic forms. For now, it only includes a list of stan­zas (qua­train, ottava rima, etc.) and fixed forms (ron­deau, son­net, etc.), ignor­ing spe­cific rhyme-clausula sequences. This sub­sec­tion allows the user to find poems writ­ten in a given stanza or rep­re­sent­ing a given fixed form (the list of poems reflects the cur­rent state of the infor­ma­tion sys­tem).

Texts writ­ten in spe­cific stan­zaic forms (qua­trains with rhyme schemes abab, abba, aabb, etc.) can be found using Advanced Search. A full index of stan­zaic forms is planned, as a sep­a­rate task, for the next stage of the pro­ject.