Question

Introductory paragraph (about the poem, type nature tone )
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Answer 1

A poem is a group of words that are written to express or draw out emotion, paint a picture, or give a sense of beauty. There are certain ways to identify poetry from prose. Prose is a group of words written in sentences and paragraphs, like you would read in a novel or essay. Poetry is written with breaks in the lines of text to create a certain sound. Poetry has a beat, or rhythm, and sometimes it rhymes. It is often written in stanzas and uses imagery and figurative language to express emotions or ideas to the reader. This lesson will explore all of these poetry terms.
There are some basics of poetry that are important to know. These basics give poetry organization and help it to flow. A stanza is when the lines of a poem are grouped together, as with a paragraph in prose. Stanzas may have any number of lines. It is important to note that a line in a stanza is not necessarily the number of sentences. Some lines are a complete sentence; some lines are only part of a sentence.
The form of a poem is the way it looks on the page. The form includes the number of lines in each stanza and the length of each line. Like a paragraph in prose, each stanza is separated by a blank space. Sometimes a stanza ends at the end of a complete idea, sometimes it ends in the middle of a sentence. Poets may do this to give the poem a certain flow.