Throughout the history of English poetry, writers have experimented with a wide variety of stanza forms. Some of these are better than others. For example, the ballad or hymn stanza that contains four lines is known as a quatrain. Other common stanza forms include tercets, quintains, and ...
Tercet: A tercet contain three lines. When tercets rhyme, they are calledtriplets; these are a much rarer form of stanza structure. An example of a tercet is ‘Ode to the West Wind‘by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Quatrain: These are poetic pieces with four-line stanzas. Quatrains are the most...
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When you write an envelope quatrain in iambic tetrameter, we call it an In Memoriam stanza. The name comes from Tennyson’s poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.”[5] ABAB: We call this scheme an alternate or interlaced quatrain because of how the rhyme sounds alternate. ...
Villanelle: a nineteen-line poem that is divided into five tercets or sets of three lines and one concluding quatrain, or set of four lines. Ottava Rima: uses eight iambic lines and follows a rhyme scheme of ABABABCC. Acrostic: a piece of writing in which letters form words or messages....
QuatrainA quatrain is a verse form that is made up of four lines with fifteen different possible rhyme schemes. QuintainThe term “quintain” is used to describe a stanza that has five lines. It is one of several stanza forms that a poet might choose from. r RengaThe renga is a uniq...
Tanka Poetry: this is an important form of Japanese poetry that follows a syllable pattern of 5-7-5-7-7. Tercet: is a three-line stanza. It is a common stanza form, although not as common as the couplet and quatrain. Imagery: refers to the elements of a poem that engage a reader’...
A septet is any seven-line stanza in poetry. These stanzas are uncommon and sometimes associated with the work of Geoffrey Chaucer.
‘Anniversary’ by Louise Glück is a thirteen-line poem that is divided into sets of two lines, or couplets, one set of three lines, or tercet, and one final four-line stanza (also known as a quatrain). The poem is written in free verse. This means that the lines do not follow a...