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STANZA RULES
A stanza is a division within a poem consisting of a group of lines (sometimes only one line), set off by a space from the next stanza.
There may be one or more stanzas in a poem, and they may be similarly structured or alternated with others to give a larger repetitive structure.
Stanzas are commonly named for the number of lines that they contain:
# of lines
- Singlet one
- Double two
- Triplet three
- Quatrain four (the most widely used)
- Cinquain five
- Sextet six
- Septet seven
- Octave eight
The length of each line (measured by it's metric count) may vary, but is normally the same for each similar line in each stanza.
The most common stanza is probably the quatrain, with the first and third, and second and fourth, lines rhyming.
However, the lines may be of any length and the rhyming sequences may be of any order as long as they are repetitive.
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