1. POETRY
LINES & STANZAS

2. LINES There are single lines in poems.
It's Dark in Here
1 I am writing these poems 2 From inside a lion, 3 And it's rather dark in here So please excuse the handwriting 5 Which may not be too clear But this afternoon by the lion's cage 7 I'm afraid I got too near And I'm writing these lines 9 From inside a lion, 10 And it's rather dark in here Shel Silverstein
There are single lines in poems.

3. STANZAS Within a poem you will sometimes see stanzas.
Stanzas give a poem fixed structure.
Stanzas have an appearance like a paragraph, but they are not indented.
Types of stanzas include: couplets, triplets and quatrains.

4. COUPLET A couplet is two lines of poetry grouped together.
A MINOR BIRD
I’ve wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day:
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In want to silence any song.
Robert Frost
A couplet is two lines of poetry grouped together.
These two lines usually rhyme.
Humor is often used in couplets.

5. TRIPLET A triplet is a group of three lines .
The Toucan
Tell me who can Catch a toucan? Lou can. Just how few can Ride the toucan? Two can. What kind of goo can Stick you to the toucan? Glue can. Who can write some More about the toucan? You can! Shel Silverstein
A triplet is a group of three lines .
The 3 lines within the stanza usually rhyme.

6. QUATRAIN R.R. Knudson WILT CHAMBERLAIN Wilt was so built
He could give it a tilt
Over the rim
Hardly higher than him.
Does Wilty feel quilty
He’s not that trim
In girth and limb
As when he was slim?
R.R. Knudson
Quatrains is a a four line stanza.
It has a variety of common patterns
EXAMPLES OF PATTERNS:
A B B A
A A B B
A B A B
A B C G (most common)