Line in poetry

1. What is a line in a poem called?
2. How do you describe lines in a poem?

What is a line in a poem called?

Although the word for a single poetic line is verse, that term now tends to be used to signify poetic form more generally. ... A distinct numbered group of lines in verse is normally called a stanza. A title, in some poems, is considered a line.

How do you describe lines in a poem?

How to Explicate a Poem

1. State, very literally and in one or two sentences, what the poem is about. ...
2. What is the emotion of the poem? ...
3. Look at the poem. ...
4. Listen to the sounds of the poem. ...
5. How did the poet organize the poem, and why? ...
6. Be very alert to word choice.