Verse paragraph

'''Verse paragraphs''' are parts of poems that have no regular number of lines or groups of lines that make up units of sense, unlike stanzas.<ref>{{Cite web |first=A.|last= Leverkuhn |title=What Is a Verse Paragraph? |url=https://www.languagehumanities.org/what-is-a-verse-paragraph.htm |access-date=21 March 2023 |website=LanguageHumanities.Org}}</ref> They are usually separated by blank lines. It stands for a group of lines in a poem that form a rhetorical unit similar to that of a prose paragraph.

Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' and Wordsworth's ''The Prelude'' consist of verse paragraphs.

Verse paragraphs are frequently used in blank verse and in free verse.

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