2021-03-06 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด V – verse & stanza

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2021-03-06

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด V – verse & stanza

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ออกเสียง verse = ‘VURS’

ออกเสียง stanza = ‘STAN-zuh’

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Synonym study for VERSE

verse, stanza, strophe, stave

are terms for a metrical grouping in poetic composition.

Verse is often mistakenly used for stanza, 

but is properly only a single metrical line. 

A stanza is a succession of lines (verses) 

commonly bound together by a rhyme scheme, 

and usually forming one of a series of similar groups that constitute a poem: 

The four-line stanza is the one most frequently used in English. 

Strophe (originally the section of a Greek choral ode sung while the chorus was moving from right to left) is in English poetry practically equivalent to “section”; 

a strophe may be unrhymed or without strict form, but may be a stanza: 

Strophes are divisions of odes. 

Stave is a word (now seldom used) that means a stanza set to music 

or intended to be sung: 

a stave of a hymn; 

a stave of a drinking song. 

Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary

Verses & versus

The “vs.” in a law case like “Brown vs. The Board of Education” 

stands for Latin versus (meaning “against” ). 

Don’t confuse it with the word for lines of poetry—"verses"

—when describing other conflicts, 

like the upcoming football game featuring Oakesdale versus Pinewood.

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Historical usage of STANZA

Stanza is first recorded in English at the end of the 16th century, 

borrowed from Italian. 

A stanza is a well-defined group of several lines of poetry 

having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme; 

the scheme is usually repeated. 

In Italian, stanza means 

“a stopping place, room (in a house), lodging, chamber, stanza (in poetry).” 

The Italian word comes from Vulgar Latin stantia, a noun formed from stant-, 

the present participle stem of stare “to stand” and the abstract noun suffix -ia.

Stanza and strophe are often used interchangeably, 

but stanza is more properly used for modern rhyming poetry 

based on stressed versus unstressed syllables, 

and strophe is more properly used for ancient quantitative poetry 

based on the duration of syllables, especially in Greek drama. 

In modern poetry, 

a strophe is any separate section or extended movement in a poem, 

distinguished from a stanza in that it does not follow a regularly repeated scheme.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Usage notes

‘Versus’ vs ‘Verses’

The ultimate battle 

What to Know

Versus is a preposition meaning "against," 

while its homophone verses is the plural form of the noun "verse," 

such as a line from a song or poem. 

"Versus" has many variants and shorthands, 

like "vs." and "v.", but "verses" is not one of them.

Versus and verses - meaning

Versus is a preposition, with the meaning of “against,” 

or “in contrast to or as the alternative of.” 

In use in English since the 15th century, 

the word comes from the past participle of the Latin vertere, 

meaning “to turn.” 

Verses is either the plural form of a noun (“a line of metrical writing”) 

or the third-person singular form of a not-terribly-common verb 

(“to make verse”). 

The meanings of these two words are quite distinct, 

yet due to a resemblance in appearance and sound 

people will occasionally use verses where versus is called for.

We do not countenance such use. 

However, this does not mean that we point our fingers at people who use it thusly, and laugh and snigger. 

It simply means that we do not provide variant forms of versus 

(the way we do for its abbreviations, 

which may be rendered as vs, vs., or v), 

as such use is not widespread or established enough to warrant inclusion.

For confusing verses and versus.”

In summary: 

Versus and verses are homophones 

("one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling'), 

so no one will notice if you substitute one for the other when speaking.

 However, these words have distinct meanings, 

and should not be swapped in writing. 

Versus is a preposition, meaning "against," 

and verses is generally the plural form of the noun verse.

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions

verse & stanza

Verse is a term of several meanings, 

only one of which is fully accurate: “one line of a poem.” 

The word verse comes from a Latin term meaning “a turning” 

and is correctly applied to the way in which 

one line of a poem “turns” into a new line.

Verse is often confused with stanza, 

which is a succession of lines (verses) bound together by some sheme (usually a pattern of rhyme) 

and forming one of a series of similar groups that make up a poem.

“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day” is 

the first verse of the first stanza of Grey’s famous Elergy, 

Written in a Country Churchyard. 

The poem contains 128 verses (lines) arranged in 32 stanzas.