STANZA

Definition : stanza is one of the divisions of a poem. It's constructed of two or more lines by a common pattern of rhyme, and number of lines. Stanza is separated by a space.


Example :
STANZA ONE:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, (line 1)
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

STANZA TWO:
Then took the other, as just as fair (line 6)
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,


STANZA THREE:
And both that morning equally lay (line 11)
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

STANZA FOUR:
I shall be telling this with a sigh (line 16)
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 


Significance : Stanza is indispensable in a poem. Stanza helps to make the poem looks clearer and separate the ideas that is sent in a poem better. 


[ a poem with no clear stanza would look like that in the picture. ]