A division of poetry by each section's content in a rhetorical manner akin to prose paragraphs. Often, a typesetter or editor indicates verse paragraphs by adding an extra line-space above and be [..]

A stanza of irregular length is sometimes called a verse paragraph.

though sometimes used as a synonym for stanza, this term technically designates passages of verse, often beginning with an indented line, that are unified by topic (as in a prose paragraph) rather tha [..]

Verse paragraphs are stanzas with no regular number of lines or groups of lines that make up units of sense. They are usually separated by blank lines. It stands for a group of lines in a poem that fo [..]

A group of verse lines that make up a single rhetorical unit. In longer poems, the first line is often indented, like a paragraph in prose. The long narrative passages of John Milton’s Paradise Lost a [..]