heroic stanza Syllabification: (he·ro·ic stan·za)Entry from US DictionaryDefinition of heroic stanza noun a rhyming quatrain in heroic verse. Also called heroic quatrain. (in English poetry) a quatrain in iambic pentameter rhyming abab or abba. Compare with elegiac stanza.heroic stanza in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of heroic stanza in the US English dictionary