Readers! Get your weekly dose of Poetic Facts only on PTWWW! Like it share the word across:) IS A VERSE THE SAME AS A STANZA? Verse can mean poetry in general, or it can mean a paragraph of poetry, also called a stanza. Traditionally, a stanza contains no more than 12 lines. A two-line stanza is called a couplet, and a four-line couplet is a … Continue reading Poetic Fact of the Week