Stanzas and Lines

two line stanza

• tercet

• quatrain

• couplet

four line stanza

• tercet

• quatrain

• couplet

nine line stanza

• sestet

• couplet

• spenserian

six line stanza

• sestet

• octave

• quintet

five line stanza

• octave

• quintet

• tercet

three line stanza

• tercet

• octave

• spenserian

eight line stanza

• spenserian

• octave

• couplet

what is a poem?

• literary work composed of paragraphs and feelings and intensity.

• literary work in which special intensity is govern to the expression of feelings.

• literary work of non fiction in which an author uses a series of related paragraphs to examine an idea.

a group of lines in a poem

• paragraph

• poetry

• stanza

She was a little tense

The notice made no sense

I saw a little hermit crab

His coloring was oh so drab

It's hard to see the butterfly

Because he flies across the sky

• couplet

• tercet