The UVic Writer's Guide Stanza Stanzas are to poetry what paragraphs are to prose. They are groups of lines that have been separated from other groups of lines in the poem. Often the stanzas within a specific poem have consistent patterns of rhyme and meter, but poems may also be divided into completely irregular stanzas.
Verse paragraphs are like their prose counterparts.
In longer poems in blank verse or heroic couplets, the paragraph becomes the organizing principle.