snippet vs stanza

snippet

noun
  • A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample. 

  • A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase. 

verb
  • To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt. 

  • To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors. 

stanza

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

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

  • An apartment or division in a building. 

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

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

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