EXAMPLES of verses, rhymes and stanzas

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The poetry or lyric It is the literary genre that expresses the feelings of the author. This has its own characteristics and its rules in terms of writing. In a PROFESSOR we want to show you a great variety of examples of verses, rhymes and stanzas so that you know better these elements of literature. To do this, we will talk about the differences and the different types that exist so that you can understand and identify them quickly.

Index

1. Differences between verses, rhymes and stanzas
2. Examples of verses
3. Types and examples of rhyme in a poem
4. Types and examples of stanzas
5. The stanzas of four verses

In the first place, in order to define each of the units that make up a poem and point out the types that make up each of them, we must know how the terms of the poem differ. verse, rhyme and stanza.

• The verse: the verses are each of the lines that make up a poem. The words that compose it have a structure, a cadence (metric) and a certain measure. The verses have an internal rhythm, a final rhyme and a fixed number of syllables.
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• Rhymes: it is a purely stylistic device of poetry. This consists of the repetition of a specific sound in two or more verses of the poem, always starting from the last stressed syllable of the same.
• Stanza: is the set of verses ordered following a structure. Poems can be composed of one stanza or several.

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The verses can be divided and marked according to three criteria:

• Attending to the rhyme: that is, whether or not the verses rhyme with each other. Here we can find, therefore: the rhymed verses, the individual verses, the white verses and the free verses.
• Attending to your measure: its number of syllables determines the type of verse. Taking into account this criterion we find the minor art verses (formed between two and eight syllables) and the verses of major art (those that have more than 9 syllables).
• Taking care of the arrangement of your accents: depending on this they are classified into verses of asymmetric accentuation and symmetric accentuation.

Here we leave you a selection of some examples of verses:

With your face in my gaze

With your house on my blanket.

By the dark night of the moon

The wind comes out from night until one o'clock.

Your home is an eternal memory

How much I daydream.

My hands on your sweet face

They are the water of the eternal curse.

To go to school early,

May God help us with his hands.

As with the verses, we can meet with different types of rhymes in the lyric. These are divided into different categories:

• Attending to its bell: here we find the rhymes consonants and with the assonance. The first of them is also considered as a perfect rhyme and it is in which all the sounds coincide from the last stressed syllable of the verse. For its part, the assonance is the one in which the vowels coincide and there is at least one different consonant.
• Attending to your accent: the position of the stressed syllable of the final word of the verse is taken into account. That is, if the words that end the verse are sharp, flat or esdrújulas.
• Attending to its placement in the poem: that is, how some verses rhyme with others within the poem. They can repeat the same rhyme throughout the entire poem (AAAA), repeat in pairs (AABB), rhyme of the outer verses (ABBA), rhyme of the verses pairs with each other and odd numbers in the same way (ABAB) and cross rhymes in which the verses rhyme with others within another stanza of the poem (ABA BCD CDE).

Examples of rhyme in a poem:

• "It will rain" and "It will return" (Consonant)
• "Partió" and "surrendered" (Asonant)
• "Fishbowl" and "Header" (Consonant)
• "Managua" and "Aconcagua" (Consonant)

The stanzas also have a number of characteristics that help define and identify them. These are made up of the verses and are the ones that structure the poem as a whole. First of all, stanzas can be simply divided into:

• Isometric stanza: all the verses that make it up have the same number of syllables. It is the most common and used form in the lyric.
• Herterometric stanza: the verses that form it do not contain the same number of syllables.

On the other hand, if we look at the number of verses that make up each of them, we can find another classification in which each set has a specific name. These are the types of stanzas according to the number of verses.

• Two verses: these can rhyme with each other as in the case of couplet or be different, as in the distich.
• Three verses: within the stanzas with three verses we find the trio that have hendecasyllable verses (11 syllables) and consonant rhyme; the third composed of verses of minor art and consonant rhyme and the soleá that is typical of Andalusian popular poetry and that consists of three verses of minor art with consonant rhyme.
• Five verses: is divided into limerick (verses of minor art), the quintet (major art) and lira that mixes the verses of major art with those of minor art
• Six verses: the sextilla It has verses of minor art and the sextet with verses of major art. Here we also find the broken foot couplet that combines verses of 8 and four syllables.
• Eight verses: Italian octave, leaflet, royal octave and couplet of major art.
• Ten verses: here we find the spinel and the royal couplet.
• From twelve verses: it is called alejandrina

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The stanzas of four verses are the most common and used, for this reason they require a special section in which to define their particularities. The great difference that is established between stanzas of this type has to do with the meter of their verses, that is, whether they are verses of minor art or major art. Let's start with the major art:

• Quartet: composed of verses of 11 syllables and interlaced consonant rhyme (ABBA)
• Serventesio: hendecasyllable verses with cross rhyme (ABAB)
• Sash: Alexandrian verses (14 syllables) and continuous consonant rhyme.

For its part, the stanzas of four verses in minor art are divided into:

• Round: interlaced consonant rhyme (abba) composed of 8 syllable verses.
• Couplet: has popular origin and is composed of verses of less than 8 syllables and assonance rhyme.
• Seguidilla: it has verses of 5 or 7 syllables with assonance rhyme.

Finally, the stanzas can also be classified according to their combinations:

• Sonnet: made up of two quartets and two triplets
• Romance: set of verses of eight syllables where the pairs rhyme with assonance rhyme leaving the odd ones free.
• Dirge: succession of verses of 6 and seven syllables in groups of four verses with assonance rhyme.
• Zejel: chorus of two verses with three rhymed with each other. They all have 8 syllables.
• Silva: achievement of verses of 7 and 11 syllables with consonant free rhyme.
• Madrigal: free combination of verses of seven and 11 syllables without a fixed number of verses with a pastoral theme.

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