what is a stanza break
Poems have shorter lines than paragraphs, and they are surrounded by white space. The place where a poet chooses to end one line and begin another is called a line break. Thus, the ends of lines are called line breaks. Another of a poemâs divisions is the stanza, which is a grouping of two or more lines within a poem. The space between stanzas is known as a stanza break. Poetry is the only genre in which form matters as much as content. Beginning writers of free verse poetry are often confounded by line breaks and how to handle them.
Stanza means stopping place. The term stanza means âstopping placeâ in Italian. A stanza is a set of lines in a poem, set apart from other sets of lines by space. Each stanza comprises its own unit. The break/space between stanzas generally indicates a pause between thoughts, concepts or actions. In standard practice, most poems end a sentence at the end of stanza.