Terms for poem and song analysis

Terms you need to know when analysing a poem or a song STRUCTURE/FORM Verse: What we call the lines of a poem/song. There are often several verses (lines) in a poem, which together form a ‘stanza’. Stanza: group of (usually rhymed) verses forming a unit in some types of poems. There might be several stanzas in one poem/ song. RHYME and RHYTHM: Rhymes are usually found at the end of a verse. The last syllable of a verse often rhymes with the last syllable of the verse below (for example: ‘break’ rhyming with ‘take’, or ‘do’ rhyming with ‘too’). When