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Poetry - Stanzas - I Am Poem

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Reinforce the concept that many poems are organized into stanzas, each of which has the same number of lines.  The provided worksheet template asks young poets to craft three stanzas that all begin with the same line and have the same number of lines. 

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stanzas, poetic structure, poetry

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5 line stanzas, stanzas, parts of poems, english language arts
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3rd - 4th
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English Language Arts
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