Poems have stanza patterns {prosody, poetry}.
long-poem part {canto}.
Line pairs {couplet}| can rhyme. Couplets typically have eight syllables per line.
Iambic-pentameter line pairs {heroic couplet} can rhyme.
Eight iambic pentameter lines have rhyme scheme ABABABCC {ottava rima}.
Stanzas {quatrain}| can have four lines. Quatrains can have iambic pentameter lines with rhyme scheme ABAB {heroic quatrain} {elegiac quatrain} {heroic stanza}. Quatrains can have iambic pentameter line, iambic trimeter line, iambic tetrameter line, and iambic trimeter line {ballad stanza}.
Verses {quintain} can have five lines.
Seven iambic pentameter lines have rhyme scheme ABABBCC {rhyme royal}.
Eight iambic-pentameter lines can precede an Alexandrine line, with rhyme scheme ABABBCBCC {Spenserian stanza}.
Poems have sections or paragraphs {stanza} {verse} with fixed line numbers in rhyming patterns.
Stanzas {triplet, three} {tercet} can have three lines.
Triplet stanzas {terza rima} can have line that rhymes with line in next stanza.
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