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Names of lines of poetry in a stanza

In poems, stanzas are the visual divisions of the lines. The different number of lines in a stanza have different names and they are as follows:
Two lines - couplet
Three lines - tercet
Four lines- quatrain
Five lines- quintet
Six lines-sestet
Eight lines-octave
Fourteen lines - sonnet

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