| STANZA | Group of lines of verse forming a pattern (6) |
| STANZAS | What are groups of lines of verse, commonly four or more in number (7) |
| RHYMES | Similar sounds at the ends of lines of poetry (6) |
| LINAGE | Number of lines of printed matter |
| VERSES | Set of lines of metrical text |
| OCTAVE | A stanza of eight lines of verse (6) |
| STANZAED | Made into a fixed number of lines of verse |
| GRAHAM | Stephen, actor who played undercover officer John Corbett in season five of Line of Duty (6) |
| ODESSA | Lines of verse before ship comes to a port (6) |
| TERCET | Eschewing even bits of theory, create lines of verse (6) |
| OCTETS | Groups of eight electrons, lines of verse, musicians or singers (6) |
| IAMBIC | One’s a writer of certain lines of verse |
| ACROSTIC | Word formed by initial letters of lines of verse (8) |
| SONNET | Child brings back ten lines of verse (6) |
| POETRY | Author's best, ultimate lines of verse (6) |
| GRID | A network of intersecting lines forming a pattern of squares, observed in everyday things such as a crossword puzzle, map, piece of graph paper, spreadsheet or trellis (4) |
| OHDEAR | Lines of verse in recital are distorted, I'm afraid (2,4) |
| RHYMESCHEME | Pattern at ends of lines of verses (5,6) |
| MOTIF | A decorative image or design, especially a repeated one forming a pattern (5) |
| CRISSCROSSING | Forming a pattern of intersecting lines |
