📖 What’s the Difference Between a Story and a Poem?
2nd Grade 📚 Literature
A story is written in sentences and paragraphs and tells events. A poem is written in lines and stanzas and plays with sound and feeling.
Stories (prose)
A story has characters, a setting and a plot — a problem and a solution. It is written in sentences that make paragraphs.
Poems (verse)
A poem is written in lines. Groups of lines are called stanzas. Poems often use rhyme, rhythm and repeated sounds, and pack a big feeling into few words.
Both can be fun
Some books mix the two! Dr. Seuss told whole stories in rhyming verse, like "The Cat in the Hat."
Quick quiz
A group of lines in a poem is called a…
What does a story usually have?
Which author told stories in rhyme?