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For this activity, reread Acquainted With the Night. Each grouping of lines (3/3/3/3/2) is known as a STANZA. In poetry, as in the paragraphs used in fiction, each stanza has a separate meaning and purpose. It could be based on a different tone, setting, idea, etc.

Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.                                                               
I have outwalked the furthest city light.                                                               

I have looked down the saddest city lane. 
I have passed by the watchman on his beat 
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. 

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet                                                        
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street.

But not to call me back or say good-bye;                                                                       
And further still at an unearthly height,                                                                          
One luminary clock against the sky 
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.                                                        

I have been one acquainted with the night.