We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. I have walked out in rain — and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. In the first stanza, the speaker tells that he walks a lot at night , and in the second stanza he feels sad and passed by a watchman, whom he avoids.
Examples of Different Types of Stanzas in Poems Stanzas are categorized by the number of lines included in them. Couplet A couplet is a stanza with two lines that rhyme. For example: "But if thou live, remember'd not to be, Die single, and thine image dies with thee. Tercet A tercet is a stanza with three lines that may or may not rhyme. For example: "Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find! I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind; But although I take your meaning, 'tis with such a heavy mind!
Quatrain A quatrain is a stanza with four lines that may or may not rhyme. For example: "He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake.
Quintain A quintain is a stanza with five lines that may or may not rhyme. For example: "In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. Sestet A sestet is a stanza with six lines that may or may not rhyme. For example: "And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love — then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
It is generally written in common meter with an ABCB rhyme scheme. It is of particular importance to sonnets, though it also appears in other forms.
Elegiac couplet: One of the more common forms in ancient Greek and Latin verse, elegiac couplets are defined by their meter: alternating dactylic hexameter and pentameter. Elegiac couplets are scarcely used by poets writing in English. Envoi: An envoi is a brief concluding stanza at the end of a poem that summarizes the preceding poem or serves as its dedication.
This type of stanza is defined not by its length, meter, or rhyme scheme, but rather by its content and its position at the end of the poem. Envois appear most often in the poetic form called the ballade. Stand-alone lines: Used almost exclusively in free verse, single-line stanzas are seldom be referred to as stanzas, but should be acknowledged as constituting a unit of poetry in and of themselves when preceded and followed by double line breaks.
Breaking Down and Adding Up Stanzas Stanzas consisting of four or more lines may sometimes be described as containing shorter stanzas within them, even if there is no stanza break. Stanza vs. Strophe "Strophe," like "stanza," is a term that refers to a grouping of lines in poetry. In some cases it can be used interchangeably with "stanza," while in others it can't: When line groupings are inconsistent : "Strophe" is used specifically in the context of poetry that does not use stanzas of consistent length throughout the poem, as is the case with many poems written in free verse.
In such cases the term "strophe" can be used interchangeable with "stanza" to refer to any grouping of lines as a unit. When line groupings are consistent : When line groupings are either consistent when all of the stanzas in a poem are four-line quatrains, for instance or when the line-groupings follow traditional rules as in the octave and sextet of a sonnet , the word strophe cannot be used. In those cases, "stanza" is always used to refer to such line groupings. To put it another way: all strophes are stanzas, but not all stanzas are strophes.
His father told him never start writing or reading in the middle of a book. Tercets in Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night" Tercets are the basic unit of a form known as the villanelle , which follows an A B A rhyme scheme and has two refrains that repeat throughout the poem.
Couplet in Shakespeare's "Sonnet V" The lines at the end of this sonnet may be referred to as a "rhyming couplet. Elegiac Couplets in Ovid's "Elegy III" This brief excerpt from a longer love poem by the Roman poet Ovid makes use of elegiac couplets though the original meter is lost in translation.
Envoi in Kipling's "Sestina of the Tramp-Royal" This sestina by Rudyard Kipling is a good example of the sestina's use of envoi , a brief concluding stanza to a poem. Love is a burnin' thing And it makes a fiery ring Bound by wild desire I fell into a ring of fire I fell into a burnin' ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire, the ring of fire Why Do Writers Use Stanzas? The dictionary definition of Stanza: A basic definition that includes a bit on the etymology of stanza in Italian it means "room," or "stopping place.
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I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and history, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way—the children's eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man.
If you know would you kindly leave your comment below? It seems official names end at 8. I couldn't find an official name for any nine-line stanza during my research. It's like 9-line stanzas have not received the reputation they deserve. However, there are different types of popular 9-line stanzas including the Spenserian stanza and the nonet. In music, the nonet is a combination of nine voices, instruments, or musicians.
The nonet is recognized as a standalone poem made up of nine lines. Essentially, it's one stanza comprising of nine lines. The first line of a nonet contains nine syllables, the second eight, the third seven. It continues like that until the last line which has one syllable. Amazing; you growing inside me Adventures end others begin Flutters and tummy movements Responding to my touch Kicked from the inside Alive and kicking You are a Marvel Babe. The Spenserian stanza was popularized by Edmund Spenser, a poet who lived in the s.
It's a nine-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc. The first eight lines follow the iambic pentameter and the ninth line has six iambic feet. The following nine-line stanza is excerpted from Spenser's poem known as The Fairie Queen. The dizain derives its name from French literature. Dix-pronounced "diz" means "ten" in French.
Thus, the dizain stanza form has 10 lines. As other stanza forms, it can stand alone as a complete poem. Check out the following excerpt of a ten-line stanza from a long poem by John Keats entitled Ode on a Grecian Urn. This is Stanza 2 of the poem. Now that you have examples of basic stanza forms and their names, why don't you create some poetry?
Or analyze the stanza forms of your favorite poems. The beauty of poetry is that you can have fun creating them. Or, invent your own stanza form and give it a name. Question: Which of the following pairs of words alliterate? A haunted hour B cunning king C charitable character D great gel E idling eyes. Question: If a poem consists more than 14 lines or so what name we will give to it?
Answer: A stanza with 14 lines is called the Onegin Stanza.
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