Poems are usually separate into lines.
Lines may not serve any specific function.
Lines of poems are often organized into stanza.
These lines may or may not relate to each other by rhyme or rhythm.
Example:
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,
its white flag waving over everything,
the landscape vanished,
not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness,
and beyond these windows
the government buildings smothered,
schools and libraries buried, the post office lost
under the noiseless drift,
the paths of trains softly blocked,
the world fallen under this falling.
Significance:
In poems, lines perform more than one function, it can separate, compare or contrast thoughts expressed in different units, or can highlight a change in tone.
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