portion vs stanza

portion

noun
  • That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 

  • An allocated amount. 

  • One's fate; lot. 

  • A wife's fortune; a dowry. 

  • The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance. 

verb
  • To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes. 

  • To endow with a portion or inheritance. 

stanza

noun
  • A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic. 

  • An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP. 

  • An apartment or division in a building. 

  • A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse. 

  • A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided. 

How often have the words portion and stanza occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )