Play and Stanza

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Play noun - Activity engaged in to amuse oneself.

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Stanza and play are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stanza" instead a noun "Play".

Nearby Words: played, playful, player, playfulness, playing

Stanza noun - A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.

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Play and stanza are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Play" instead a noun "Stanza".

The last stanza appears as an epigraph for the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which is about a man whose father is dying.

Source: Literature / Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
In old-fashioned hymnody, the organist will often play a softer, simpler accompaniment to the next-to-last stanza so that the last will sound thunderous by comparison.

Source: Subdued Section
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: "Vamos" gives us this stanza: They'll come and play Their friends will say Your daddy's rich Your mama's a pretty thing This Is a Song: "Tony's Theme": This is a song about a superhero named Tony!

Source: Music / Surfer Rosa

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