I was teaching "The Clerk's Tale" the other day, and wanted to talk a bit about how the rhyme royal stanza works as a stanza. And then I realized that my mostly English major students have no idea how to talk about verse as verse; they have no idea because we aren't teaching them in our lit courses.
So, I tried on the fly, and I don't think I did terribly well. (I used "Adam Scriveyn" to try, and I should have gone with something different, probably. But there it is.) We did get to talking about how meter feels in the mouth, how repetitions work in the mouth and ears, and so forth, and a little to how the stanza builds. Let's just face it: it wasn't my best teaching moment.
So the question of the day: where/how do your English majors learn to read verse as verse, if they do?
And how do you teach students to read verse as verse, if you do?
What strategies do you use? What examples?