4.2 How To Read A Poem With Rhythm By Identifying Rhyming Couplets
Some Poems Have Stanzas
Poems can have stanzas. You may have heard them called verses.
Stanzas act like paragraphs:
- They break the poem into smaller chunks.
- They separate ideas.
- They have two or more lines that group according to length, beat, and often rhyming patterns.
Here is an example of the first two stanzas of a poem where each stanza has four lines:
