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The word 'stanza'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
stanzaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1175
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 65.6 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stanza in Corpus

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South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
t fairly breenges alang. Ilka stanza ends wi ‘When winter cams h
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
t Scotland's Poetry Festival, StAnza. Afore yin group skailed, the
Drew Clegg, the convener o StAnza, spake refreshinly an natural
StAnza ran frae 16-19 Mairch 2006 an
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
m Each an Sipel, that's first stanza is,
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
s can be seen frae this neist stanza, he wis a guid sangsmith, and on page 69

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
o ‘oor sex’ in the final stanza: ‘thair is mair constancie
iment and phrasin o the final stanza o poem 49 .
iage, introducit in the first stanza abuin; cf. the ‘band of Hym
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
The anonymous, nine-stanza, female-voicit poem o 72 line
ly, the poet includes in this stanza on idealisit mairriage a fema
It is in the sixth stanza, hooivver, that the poem raxe
The follaen stanza bigs on the theme o the uniqu
The final stanza ends the poem in siblike vein
7 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
mends, O rich folks' greed in stanza's plump, Tae poortith freens. on page 59

1 matches

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