stanza vs verse

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. 

verse

noun
  • A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme. 

  • One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed. 

  • A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part. 

  • Poetic form in general. 

  • A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.) 

verb
  • to educate about, to teach about. 

  • To oppose, to compete against, especially in a video game. 

  • To tell in verse, or poetry. 

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