Poetry Terms: Stanza

A Clock stopped—
Not the Mantel's—
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the puppet bowing—
That just now dangled still—
[First Stanza]
An awe came on the Trinket!
The Figures hunched, with pain—
Then quivered out of Decimals—
Into Degreeless Noon—
[Second Stanza]
It will not stir for Doctors—
This Pendulum of snow—
This Shopman importunes it—
While cool—concernless No—
[Third Stanza]
Nods from the Gilded pointers—
Nods from the Seconds slim—
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life—
And Him— 

[Fourth Stanza]

~"A Clock Stopped"

by Emily Dickinson

Definition Poetry's language. A paragraph
Example The poem above. There is four stanzas in that poem, but there is only two stanzas in the picture poem.
Significance Without stanza are like three paragraph in a essay [introduction, body, and conclusion] in one paragraph or many ideas in a paragraph. Probably you wouldn't like to read it either? Too many words make you dizzy and so to me! It would make the poem harder for us to understand. Let's not be confusing.