What is a Stanza?
Answer – A stanza is a group of lines that acts as an individual unit in a poem.
Explanation:
Stanzas are the poetry equivalent of prose’s paragraphs. One stanza is one group of lines, all of which are united by a common theme or together form a recognizable structure.
A poem has at least one stanza, hence they are also called the building blocks of poetry. If a poem has multiple stanzas, they are separated from one another by line breaks.
A slumber did my spirit seal
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled around in earth’s diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
In this poem by William Wordworth, there are two stanzas, easily recognizable by their rhyming pattern (abab).
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