English - Literature - Poetry - Stanza and verse structure - Poem Architecture
5 steps: (1) A STANZA is a group of lines in a poem, separated by blank lines - like a paragraph in prose. (2) Stanza names by line count: COUPLET (2 lines), TERCET (3), QUATRAIN (4), CINQUAIN (5), SESTET (6), SEPTET (7), OCTAVE (8). (3) A VERSE = a single line of poetry (also sometimes used to mean