In the same volume (Poems and Ballads, Second Series, 1878) Swinburne introduces a double sestina (The Complaint of Lisa) that is unlike Sidney's: it comprises 12 stanzas of 12 iambic pentameter lines each, the first stanza rhyming abcabdcefedf.
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Each successive stanza takes its pattern based upon a bottom-up pairing of the lines of the preceding stanza (i.e., last and first, then second-from-last and second, then third-from-last and third). Given that the pattern for the first stanza is 123456, this produces 615243 in the second stanza. Retrogradatio cruciata: The pattern of end-words in one stanza of a sestina, relative to the previous stanza.
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A tritina is a contraction of the sestina to three stanzas of three lines (tercets), with a one-line envoy. The order of the line-ending words follows the same pattern as that of the sestina, so that they appear: 123, 312, 231 with the envoy as 123.
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Term: Stanza. A stanza is a group of lines within a poem; the blank line between stanzas is known as a stanza break. Like lines, there is no set length to a stanza or an insistence that all stanzas within a poem need be the same length. However, there are names for stanzas of certain lengths: two-line stanzas are couplets; three-lines, tercets; four-lines, quatrains.
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It consists of three lines that include all six of the line-endings words of the preceding stanzas. This should take the pattern of 2–5, 4–3, 6–1 (numbers relative to the first stanza); the first end-word of each pair can occur anywhere in the line, while the second must end the line.
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8-line stanzas. An 8-line stanza of any kind is called an octave (or occasionally an octet). The word octave is also used for the first 8 lines of a sonnet. Ottava rima rhymes abababcc, the lines being of either 10 or 11 syllables (i.e. iambic pentameter, sometimes with an extra syllable).
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Stanzas. A stanza is the proper name for what is more commonly known as a verse. (Confusingly, to prosodists the word verse seems often to mean what you and I would, in our ignorance, call a line.). Many standard verse forms consist of several similarly-structured stanzas.
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Stanza forms. Stanzas can be of any number of lines. Some types of stanza have special names. For example: a couplet has two lines that rhyme with each other. a quatrain has four lines, rhyming in any pattern. The lines in rhyming stanzas can be of any length. However, it is quite common for them to be isometric, that is, for each of them to contain the same number of syllables. The stanza above by James Elroy Flecker is in regular eight-syllable lines: octosyllabics.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/forms-of-verse-rhyming-stanzas/
A 3-line stanza of any kind is called a tercet. aaa is a triplet. axa is pretty common, occurring in forms such as the villanelle and terza rima (where in both cases there are also rhymes between stanzas). The haiku is a species of tercet, and so are some varieties of englyn (though not the one featured on this site).
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4-line stanzas. A 4-line stanza of any kind is called a quatrain. There are four kinds of fully-rhymed (and hence odeworthy) quatrain: abab is known as cross-rhyme (French rimes crois es or rimes altern es) and abba as envelope-rhyme (French rimes embrass es).
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how many lines are in one stanza
There can be any number of lines in one stanza. There are any number of lines in one stanza.