Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- 1 Definitions of the Stanza -- Poets and Early Critics -- Modern Prosodists -- 2 Stanza Forms -- Couplets -- Tercets -- Quatrains -- Cinquains -- Sixains -- Seven-line Stanzas -- Eight-line Stanzas -- Nine-line Stanzas -- Classical Stanza Forms -- The Sapphic Stanza -- The Alcaic Quatrain -- The Pindaric Ode -- Formal Ambiguity -- Heterometrical Stanzas -- Stanzaic Poems -- Haiku -- Ghazal -- Triolet -- Villanelle -- Rondel -- Rondeau -- Sestina -- 3 Stanzaic Unity -- Stanzaic Opening -- Stanzaic Closure -- Stanzaic Framing -- Stanzaic Recurrence -- 4 Stanza and Poetic Structure -- Stanzaic Mobility -- Stanzaic Progression -- Retrospective Linkage -- Linkage a Priori -- 5 Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index