I just put that stanza break in there because when I read it aloud (I'm a performance poet), I pause there. Note: that is not an option among the answers because no one ever asked me why I did it.

A poem is built of rests. Each line break, each stanza break and each caesura represents a pause, and in that pause there is room to take a breath. To ponder. To sit, for once in our lives, with ...

Revise Robert Burn' poem 'To a Louse' and its themes of social justice and self awareness as part of Higher English. ... To a Louse Stanzas 1 - 3: Disbelief and social effrontery.

The third stanza marks a break in the poem as Lochhead reminisces about the evening she met the man who was to become her partner. The love poem of the title is introduced.

Haazinu is a poem with definite stanzas. It is one of the few places in the Torah where Jewish law dictates where the stops in the Torah reading should take place.

We were never meant to survive. Each time I re-read this stanza from "A Litany For Survival," the chaos and confusion I feel is cleared away. The lines are clean and defiant. They name our aches ...