Read this excerpt from "Ritmo/Rhythm” by Margarita Engle.Mad and I used to do everything together, but now I need a project all my own, so I roam the green fields, finding bones.The skull of a wild boar. The jawbone of a mule.

The excerpt is arranged as three poetic lines: the line about roaming and finding bones, then “The skull of a wild boar,” and “The jawbone of a mule.” A stanza made up of three lines is called a three-line stanza. It is not a quatrain, which has four lines.

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