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by Lamar O'Reilly Published 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago

What is a stanza?

It is called stanza the segments into which a poem is divided , each consisting of several verses . Equivalent, more or less, to the paragraphs of prose: medium structural units, which are made up of several propositions around a common axis of meaning or meaning.

Types of stanza

The stanzas are classified according to their number and type of verses.

How many verses does a stanza have?

As we have seen, stanzas can have different numbers of verses, even more so in contemporary poetry that is not governed by metrics or fixed patterns. For example, the stanza below has two verses:

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