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GCSE English Literature · key term
A stanza containing five lines.
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Paper 2
Revise: Walking AwayThe poem consists of four five-line stanzas, or quintains, each following an ABACA rhyme scheme. In the first stanza, ‘day’, ‘play’ and ‘away’ rhyme, while ‘turning’ and ‘satellite’ have separate sounds. This repeated pattern provides order around the father's difficult feelings and may suggest his effort to contain and understand them.
Paper 2
A five-line stanza.
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Love is free verse arranged in five quintains: twenty-five lines in five five-line stanzas. It has no fixed regular rhyme scheme or metre. The orderly stanza shape holds together a voice whose sentences repeatedly run across line and stanza boundaries.
