1. What happens in the month of November?
2. Explain the meaning of the first line of the poem.
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Answer:
1) Fun Facts about November
It is the last month of the Fall season. November in the Northern Hemisphere is similar to May in the Southern Hemisphere. Elections are held in the United States on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The third Thursday of November is the Great American Smokeout.
2)The word stich, pronounced like "stick," is the word that describes one line of poetry (plural is stichs, pronounced like "sticks"). The word verse can refer to one line of poetry as well, as in a poetic verse, but it can just as often refer to a poem in its entirety. However, it isn't wrong to refer to one line of poetry as a verse.
A stanza is often a regular grouping of several lines which share the same meter and have some kind of rhyme scheme. However, some poems don't have stanzas, as they are written in continuous form. Poems written like this will lack rhythmic, even stanzas, and the poetic lines will simply follow one after another, with line breaks—not to separate stanzas but to separate ideas (like you would use between paragraphs that present different ideas in an essay).