Thursday, May 10, 2012

Stanza



The poem "Invictus" has four stanzas.
Definition:
A stanza is a group of words forming one
idea in a poem. Stanzas could be called
"paragraphs" of poetry and like
paragraphs, can be very long, or very short.

Example:
All in a hot and copper sky!
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.

Significance:
Every kind of writing needs some sort
of organization and stanzas are one of
the basic units of poetry. Without them,
poems would just be in blocks of
writing.

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