Elements of Poetry 2
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- lyric
- subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme with own emotion and feeling
- narrative
- nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme which relates a story of narrative without emotion
- sonnet
- a 14-line verse
- Shakespearean (English) sonnet
- 3 quatrains and concluding couplet in iambic pentameter (abab cdcd efef gg OR abba cddc effe gg)
- Spenserian sonnet
- abab bcbc cdcd ee
- ode
- elaborate lyric verse with a serious theme
- blank verse
- unrhymed lines with iambic pentameter
- free verse
- unrhymed lines without regular rhythm
- epic
- a long, serious narrative poem which gives the account of a hero
- dramatic monologue
- lyric poem which reveals a dramatic moment and reveals the authors character
- elegy
- a poem of lament, about a death
- ballad
- a simple narrative verse which is to be sung or recited
- idyll
- lyric poetry describing life of a shepard
- villanelle
- a French verse form that is simple and spoontaneous with five tercets and a final quatrain, aba aba aba aba aba abaa
- light verse
- poetry written to entertain which can have a serious side, such as parody or satire
- haiku
- a Japanese verse in 3 lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables depicting a delicate image
- limerick
- humorous verse in five anapestic lines (aabba)
- meter
- poetry's rhythm
- feet
- the measurement for meter
- iambic
- u /
- trochaic
- / u
- anapestic
- u u /
- dactyllic
- / u u
- spondaic
- / /
- pyrrhic
- u u
- monometer
- one foot
- dimeter
- two feet
- trimeter
- three feet
- tetrameter
- four feet
- pentameter
- five feet
- hexameter
- six feet
- heptameter
- seven feet
- octometer
- eight feet
- scansion
- the analysis of elements to determine meter
- stanzas
- the "paragraphs" of poetry
- 2-lined stanza
- couplet
- tercet
- 3-lined stanza
- quatrain
- 4-lined stanza
- cinquain
- 5-lined stanza
- caesura
- a pause in the meter or rhythm of a line
- enjambement
- a run-on line, continuing into the next with puncuation
- rime
- old spelling of rhyme (repetition of like sounds at regular intervals)
- end rhyme
- rhyme at the ends of verse lines
- internal rhyme
- rhymes within a line of verse
- rhyme scheme
- the pattern of rhymes with a unit of verse
- masculine rhyme
- rhyme in which ONLY the last syllable of the rhyming words sounds similar
- feminine rhyme
- rhyme in which 2 consecutive syllables sounds similar, a double rhyme
- half (slant) rhyme
- imperfect rhyme
- assonance
- repetition of 2 or more vowel sounds in a line
- consonance
- repetition of 2 or more consonant sounds within a line
- alliteration
- the repetition of one or more initial sounds
- onomatopoeia
- the use of words whose sounds suggest its meaning
- euphony
- the use of harmonious sounds to produce a pleasing effect
- cacophony
- the use inharmonious sounds in close conjunction for effect