ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the poetry with three very basic concepts: metre, verse form, and rhyme. If the poem 'The Good-Morrow' consists of line after line arranged on more or less the same pattern, with a more or less fixed number of stresses per line, then it is said to have a regular metre. Verse can be used as another word for poetry, and as the opposite of prose. It can also be used to mean a group of lines, or an individual line. A group of lines printed together is usually referred to as a stanza. Thus, the commonest stanza in English-language poetry is the quatrain, consisting of four lines. Rhyme is the most fundamental feature of poetry, which helps us to remember poetry. In fact, traditional verse forms like the ballad and the Spenserian stanza are often defined, not just by metre and length of stanza, but also by rhyme.
