a "paragraph" in a poem is called a _____.?

Question

a.sonnet
b.stanza
c.ballad
cd.passage

Answer 1

stanza

Answer 2

Hi, AJF - A sonnet is "a little song", complete in itself, usually written in iambic pentameter. A stanza is more regularly associated with music, not poetry, although technically a stanza is a "unit within a verse". A ballad is a story in a song (i.e. self-contained). A passage is generally associated with a quote from a larger work, which may or may not be poetry. I would called (for example) the second "paragraph" of a poem the second verse. SO technically it is a stanza, BUT a stanza is more regularly associated with music (e.g. the second stanza of the Star Spangled Banner) than poetry. I would call a "paragraph" in a poem, a verse.

(former lit major)

Answer 3

Stanza

Answer 4

Stanza?

Answer 5

b. stanza

a sonnet is a poem that follows the rule "ababcdcdefefgg" it has 14 lines and each letter rhymes.

a ballad is a atory in rythmic verse.

a passage is a brief portion of a poem.

Answer 6

Stanza... sometimes also called a verse

Answer 7

b. stanza

In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. (The term means "room" in Italian.) In modern poetry, the term is often equivalent with strophe; in popular vocal music, a stanza is typically referred to as a "verse" (as distinct from the refrain, or "chorus").

In computer science, a stanza is a block or subsection of a human-readable configuration file for computer software.

In traditional English-language poems, stanzas can be identified and grouped together because they share a rhyme scheme or a fixed number of lines (as in distich/couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain/quintain, sestet). In much modern poetry, stanzas may be arbitrarily presented on the printed page because of publishing conventions that employ such features as white space or punctuation.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English (and in other Western-European languages) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas (of nine) from a poem by Isaac Watts (from 1719) cited immediately below (in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn-tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708):

Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
Under the shadow of Thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defense is sure.
Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same. [etc.]
Less obvious manifestations of stanzaic form can be found as well, as in Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, which, while printed as a whole unit in itself, can be broken into stanzas with the same rhyme scheme as follows:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds |\
Admit impediments. Love is not love | \
Which alters when it alteration finds, | / All one stanza
Or bends with the remover to remove: |/
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark, |\
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; | \
It is the star to every wandering bark, | / All one stanza
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. |/
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks |\
Within his bending sickle's compass come; | \
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, | / All one stanza
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Answer 8

B. stanza

Answer 9

stanza - and the democratic process got you the right answer!

Answer 10

B. stanza.