Question

What is a stanza in a poem?

Answer 1

A stanza is like a paragraph in a poem, where it is broken up into groups of 3-5 lines.

Answer 2

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Explanation:

Most poems are divided into stanzas, groups of lines, which function like the rooms of a house. In fact, stanza literally means 'room' in Italian. Traditionally, different kinds of stanzas are defined by their meter, the pattern of strong and weak syllables in each line, and rhyme scheme, the order in which rhymes occur. Of course, free verse, poetry that doesn't use rhyme or meter, can also use stanzas to create pauses and organize the poem on the page.

On the basis of a fixed number of lines and rhyming scheme, traditional English language poems have the following kinds of stanzas:

• Couplet

• Tercet

• Quatrain

• Quintain

• Sestet