Poetry Lines: List of Lines and Stanzas of Poetry and Their Names

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   Poem has numerous numbers of specified lines. Each, of them has different names as their numbers also differ. Understanding this various forms of line in poem goes a long way in enhancing a better understanding of a particular poem when reading or answering literature questions that  relate to Poem.



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   90% Literature students make several mistake when trying to discover forms of Poetical lines and this has been contributing to the causes of failure in Literature subject.


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Lines and Stanzas of Poetry

  a. Villanelle- A poem of two rhymes in      five tercets and a quartrain.

b. Distich- A verse arranged in a couplet but makes a complete sense.

c. Monometer- One lines of poem.

d. Couplet- Two lines of poem.

e. Tercet- Three lines of poem.

f. Quartet- Four lines of poem.

g. Quintet- Five lines of poem.

h. Sestet- Six lines of poem.

i.  Septet- Seven lines of poem.

j. Octave- Eight lines of poem.
k. Dioxin- Ten  lines of poem.

l. Dochnius- A foot of five syllables with first to fourth. Shorter than the fifth.

m. Dactyl- A finger like feet of three syllables.

n. Spontee- A foot of two long syllables.

o. Long measure- A quatrain of eight lines syllables.

p. Epitrite- A feet of three long syllables and one short syllable.

q. Fifteener- A verse of fifteen syllables.

r. Bachius- A foot of two long syllables followed by one short syllable.


However, understanding the lines and stanzas of poem demands reading carefully the whole content of a poem its then, you can easily decode and divide them  according to their perfect names.

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