literary terms [AP LIT]: Units of Verse

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verse

a single line of poetry

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stanza

a unit of poetry consisting of a group of related verses generally with a definite metrical pattern and rhyme scheme

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couplet

a pair of successive verses which rhyme

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tercet

a stanza of three lines, usually all rhyming

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quatrain

a stanza of four lines; the most common in English

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Quintain (Quintet)

a five-line stanza

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sestet

a six-line stanza or the last six lines of an Italian sonnet

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Heptastich

a seven line stanza

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Octave (Octet)

a stanza of eight lines, probably the second most common in English

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canto

a division of a long poem, comparable to chapters in a book