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Types Of Poetry - Playing With Stanzas What is a stanza? A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines. How many ways can you structure a stanza? As many as you want. Look at this stanza from the poem, Gratitude: So there is nothing to say There is nothing to say There is nothing Nothing... But gratitude Each line is a smaller part of the previous line. In this case, it quiets the mind in order to emphasize the last word: gratitude. However, this idea could be used in many ways. You could start with a line like, She watched the birds come in from the sea, and it can reduce to, Come in from the sea; From the sea: Where Michael was left alone in the storm. Each stanza could have lengthening lines. Lines could be varied in length to create a picture on the page. Playing with stanzas is a fun way to create new types of poetry. Ideas For New Types Of Poetry In the poem Do Not Believe In God, each stanza starts with one of our senses: See God... in stars and sunlight... and the face of your lover; Hear God... in wind and waves... and the music of the birds. All the senses are covered. How could we use this general idea? By starting each stanza with a different verb or adjective? By starting each stanza with a different persons name? By having each stanza get smaller or larger as the poem progresses? How many ways can you play with poems? Dream poems, could be a type of poetry that puts actual dreams into verse. Dialog poems could have stanzas or lines answering each other back and forth. A series of poems could use all the exact same words, rearranged, with an entirely different outcome in each. There are endless types of poetry you can create. |
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