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| 10407086951 | Villanelle | a nineteen line fixed form consisting of five tercets rhymed aba and a concluding quatrain rhyme abaa, with lines 1 and 3 of the first tercet serving as refrains in an alternate pattern through line 15 and then repeated as lines 18 and 19 | 0 | |
| 10407086952 | Tercet | a three line stanza exhibited in terza rima and villanelle as well as in other poetic forms | 1 | |
| 10407086953 | Terza rima | an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc etc. | 2 | |
| 10407086954 | Trimeter | a metrical line containing three feet | 3 | |
| 10407086955 | Triple meter | a meter in which majority of the feet contain three syllables | 4 | |
| 10407086956 | Trochee | a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable | 5 | |
| 10407086957 | Sonnet | a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types (Italian or English) | 6 | |
| 10407086958 | Scansion | the process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern | 7 | |
| 10407086959 | Sestet | (1) a six line stanza (2) the last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model | 8 | |
| 10407086960 | Rhythm | any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | 9 | |
| 10407086961 | Quatrain | (1) a four line stanza (2) a four line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme | 10 | |
| 10407086962 | Refrain | a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form | 11 | |
| 10407086963 | Pentameter | a metrical line containing five feet | 12 | |
| 10407086964 | Monometer | a metrical line containing one foot | 13 | |
| 10407086965 | Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde | 14 | |
| 10407086966 | Aubade | a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn | 15 | |
| 10407086967 | Ballad | a fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form | 16 |
