Monday, November 14, 2011

!Poems! Someone please help me?

A stanza is one section of a poem, a group of lines separated by a space from the group of lines before it or after it. (Technically, the sections of a poem are called stanzas only if all the sections match each other, if each of them has the same number of lines and uses the same pattern of meter and rhyme. If the sections don't match, they're called strophes. But lots of people ignore that distinction and use "stanza" for any distinct section of a poem.) So look at the poem on the page and see how often the poet uses a space to divide it into separate sections.

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