linked verse: Poetry where successive stanzas, lines, or sections connect through repeated words, images, or sounds, creating continuity across poem's structure. Linked verse includes forms like Japanese renga where poets collaboratively build poems through linked stanzas following specific rules. Linking creates coherence, forward momentum, and thematic development through repetition and connection. The technique appears in various traditions and demonstrates how poetry creates unity through association and recurrence. Understanding linked verse reveals structural principles beyond meter and rhyme, showing how connection and repetition themselves provide organizational frameworks.

Linked verse connects stanzas or sections through repeated lines, images, or phrases that bridge between units. This technique, prominent in forms like terza rima and renga, creates chain-like continuity.