A stanza can be any number of lines that go to make up a part of the poem, where as a line is just one line contained within the stanza. There can be any number of stanzas in a poem each containing many lines, usually the same number.
No. A tercet is a three-line stanza. A sestet is a six-line stanza.
what is a 5-line stanza
A line. It would hardly bear the title of 'stanza'.
In poems how easy to confuse, and fairly often to misuse, the meaning of the term verse. To think of a verse as a line is a proper way to define what makes up the whole stanza. A stanza is, at its core, made up of two or more of a line we call a verse. Here are nine verses (lines) and three stanzas.
Yes.
No. A tercet is a three-line stanza. A sestet is a six-line stanza.
1.Couplet a two line stanza 2.Triplet (Tercet) a three line stanza 3.Quitrain a four line stanza 4.Quintet a five line stanza 5.Setstet (Sextet) a six line stanza 6.Septet a seven line stanza 7.Octave an eight line stanza
a 2 line stanza is called a couplet.
A stanza is a section of a poem that consists of two or more lines. A paragraph is a section of writing that normally consists of five or more sentences.
A three-line stanza is called a tercet.
what is a 5-line stanza
Look at the 3rd line in the first stanza, the 4th line in the second stanza, and the 1st line in the fourth stanza.
A line. It would hardly bear the title of 'stanza'.
A 5 line stanza is called a cinquain
Its a poem that has 19 lines, based on the repetition of the first and third lines of the first stanza. It is made up of five tercets, and one quatrain. The rhyme scheme is aba in the first stanza, bba for the next four stanzas, and abaa for the final stanza. The final line of the second and fourth stanzas is the first line of the first stanza, while the final line of the third and fifth stanzas is the last line of the first stanza. For the final stanza, the first line of the first stanza is the third line, and the fourth is the final line of first stanza. A formal poem that uses extensive repetition
Yes there is a large difference between the two. A line has no end and a line segment ends.
A miscellaneous 8 line stanza is called an octet. But the 8 line stanza which forms the first verse of a sonnet is called an octave, and the commonest form of 8 line stanza (by far) in English is called ottava rima.