♥ Stanza ♥

DEFINITION:

A group of lines that form a unit of some types of poem.

EXAMPLE:

I Love To Write

(First Stanza)

I love to write

Day and night

What would my heart do

But cry, sigh and be blue

If I could not write

(Second Stanza)

Writing feels good

And I know it should

Who could have knew

That what I do

Is write, write, write

SIGNIFICANCE: 

Stanzas are like paragraphs in normal prose. Each stanza represents a concept and the spaces between the stanzas are like rest stops, allowing the reader to stop and think about what they have just read.