Stanza

Stanza: a group of lines in a poem that are meant to be read as a whole

Ex:

Love

Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.   

                                                        -Sri Chinmoy

Stanzas are important to poetry because when you read a poem, stanzas make understanding the poem how the poet wanted it to be understood. Stanzas make poetry better because you can imagine lots of pictures when reading a poem but it is a lot harder to read poems if the lines in it are not put together.