Lines and stanzas

Josué González
 What are lines?
A series of words written, printed, or recited as one of
the component’s units of a larger piece of writing,
such as a poem.
 Numbers of lines
Name of line Contains Line
Couplet 2 Line stanza
Tercet 3 Line stanza
quatrain 4 Line stanza
quintet 5 Line stanza
sestet 6 Line stanza
Octave 8 Line stanza
Spenserian 9 Line stanza
Examples
 Functions of lines
They can separate, can compare or can contrast
thoughts expressed in different units or can highlight
a change in tone.
 What is stanza?
A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a
poem.
Group of related lines.
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a
single unit. It is comparable to a paragraph in an
essay.