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: