Italian, "room."
Stanza is used in
poetry to refer to a unit of a larger
poem. A stanza may have a self-contained
rhyme scheme[?] or be made up a fixed number of lines (see
distich/
couplet,
tercet,
quatrain,
cinquain/
quintain,
sestet[?]) or in modern poetry be an arbitrary unit defined by publishing conventions like white space or punctuation.