a. [f. STANZA sb. + -IC.] Of, belonging to or of the nature of poetry composed in the form of stanzas.
1816. Q. Rev., XIV. 403. Thus the Lady of the Lake has stanzaic introductions.
1869. Athenæum, 24 July, 108/2. Even those odes which are manifestly stanzaic are not printed in stanzas.
1891. E. Gosse, Gossip in Libr., xx. 261. The stanzaic form in which the two pieces are written is identical.
So Stanzaical a. Hence Stanzaically adv.
1883. Hall Caine, in Academy, 1 Sept., 138. The printer has been instructed to make a stanzaical division for the eye.
1883. Athenæum, 17 Nov., 628/2. Work produced in any of the more stringent metres or stanzaical structures.
1908. Q. Rev., April, 363. The ‘long measure’ is not even treated stanzaically, but presents to the eye a series of dull-looking columns of verse.
