Some terms to consider

  • HansRik
    19 years ago

    D'accord, while reading some comments made on some poems, I came across some very disturbing ones. Disturbing, in the sense that they used a very incorrect vocabulary.
    Maybe this has been discussed before, but I cannot stress enough the importance of appropriate vocabulary when making a critique. First of all, each of the composing units of a poem is a letter, a set of these makes a word. So far so good. A line is a set of words which do not necessarily make a whole sentence:

    'Tis better to have loved and lost...

    This is one line by Lord Tennyson.
    Alternatively, a stanza or a verse, is a set of lines:

    I hold it true whate'er befall;
    I feel it when I sorrow most,
    'Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to haved loved at all.

    This is a stanza, not a line.

    In the future, please consider the difference between lines and stanzas when making a critique, just for the sake of being correct.

  • HansRik
    19 years ago

    However, not all poems have more than one stanza.

  • Feline Fatigue
    19 years ago

    is that supposed to be 'more', Hans Rik? sorry, I just HAD to pick that out.
    You are very correct. It is the same as not all poems ryme.