poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

couplet - a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

octave - a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse

sestet - a rhythmic group of six lines of verse

envoi, envoy - a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry

quatrain - a stanza of four lines

Spenserian stanza - a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c; "the spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene"

strophe - one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama

antistrophe - the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem

text, textual matter - the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text"

line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"

rhyme royal - a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer

ottava rima - a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc