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| 5944749337 | Prosody | The study of the elements of poetry. | 0 | |
| 5944749338 | Rhythm | Pattern of sound created by the varying length and emphasis given to different syllables. | 1 | |
| 5944749339 | Cadence | Rise and fall of spoken language. | 2 | |
| 5944749340 | Meter | The rhythmic pattern created in a line of verse. | 3 | |
| 5944749341 | Accentual Meter | Has a fixed number of stressed syllables in a line, but the total number of syllables is not. | 4 | |
| 5944749342 | Syllabic Meter | Has a fixed number of total syllables in a line but the number of stressed syllables is not. | 5 | |
| 5944749343 | Accentual-syllabic Meter | Both the number of stressed syllables and the total number of syllables in a line is fixed. | 6 | |
| 5944749344 | Quantitative Meter | The duration of sound in each syllable, rather than its stress, determines the meter. | 7 | |
| 5944749345 | The Foot | It is the basic rhythmic unit in which a line of verse can be divided. | 8 | |
| 5944749346 | Casura | The pronounced pause between feet. | 9 | |
| 5944749347 | Scansion | The process of analyzing the number and type of feet in a line. | 10 | |
| 5944749348 | Iamb | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | 11 | |
| 5944749349 | Trochee | A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. | 12 | |
| 5944749350 | Dactyl | A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. | 13 | |
| 5944749351 | Anapest | Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. | 14 | |
| 5944749352 | Spondee | Two successive syllables with strong stresses. | 15 | |
| 5944749353 | Pyrrhic | Two successive syllables with light stresses. | 16 | |
| 5944749354 | Monometer | One foot | 17 | |
| 5944749355 | Dimeter | Two feet | 18 | |
| 5944749356 | Trimeter | Three feet | 19 | |
| 5944749357 | Tetrameter | Four feet | 20 | |
| 5944749358 | Pentameter | Five feet | 21 | |
| 5944749359 | Hexameter | Six feet | 22 | |
| 5944749360 | Heptameter | Seven feet | 23 | |
| 5944749361 | Octameter | Eight feet | 24 | |
| 5944749362 | Iambic Pentameter | Each line of verse has five feet, each of which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | 25 | |
| 5944749363 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. It bears a close resemblance to rhythms of ordinary speech. | 26 | |
| 5944749364 | Ballad | Alternating tetrameter and trimeter, usually iambic and rhyming. | 27 | |
| 5944749365 | Free Verse | Verse that does not conform to any fixed meter or rhyme scheme. It isn't loose or restricted, it's rules of composition are as strict and difficult as traditional verse since they only rely on less evident rhythmic patterns to give the poem shape. | 28 | |
| 5944749366 | Stanza | A grouping of lines (paragraph). | 29 | |
| 5944749367 | Rhyme | Creating a sense of musicality between lines of verse. | 30 | |
| 5944749368 | End Rhyme | A rhyme that comes at the end of a line of verse. | 31 | |
| 5944749369 | Internal Rhyme | Rhyme between two or more words within a single line of verse. | 32 | |
| 5944749370 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme consisting of a single stressed syllable. | 33 | |
| 5944749371 | Feminine Rhyme | A rhyme consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. | 34 | |
| 5961838411 | Perfect Rhyme | An exact match of sounds in a rhyme. | 35 | |
| 5961841354 | Slant Rhyme | An imperfect rhyme in which the sounds are similar but not exactly the same. | 36 | |
| 5961858752 | Rhyme Schemes | Rhymes don't always occur between two successive lines of verse. | 37 | |
| 5961882533 | Couplet | Two successive rhymed lines that are equal in length. | 38 | |
| 5961886315 | Quatrain | Four-line stanza | 39 | |
| 5961889359 | Tercet | A grouping of three lines often bearing a single rhyme. | 40 | |
| 5961892425 | Terza rima | System of interlaced tercets linked by common rhymes ABA BCB CDC. | 41 | |
| 5961899809 | Punctuation | Influence the musicality of a line in poetry. | 42 | |
| 5961912152 | End-stopped Line | When there is a break at the end of a line denoted by a comma, period, semicolon, etc. | 43 | |
| 5961918863 | Enjambment | A sentence or clause that runs onto the next line without a break. It creates a sense of suspense/excitement and adds emphasis to the word at the end of the line. | 44 | |
| 5961941235 | Repitition | Words, sounds, phrases, lines, or elements of syntax that repeat within a poem. | 45 | |
| 5961960349 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds. | 46 | |
| 5961968036 | Refrain | A phrase or group of lines that is repeated at significant moments within a poem (end of a stanza). | 47 | |
| 5962006021 | Haiku | A compact form of Japanese poetry written in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. | 48 | |
| 5962029483 | Limerick | A fanciful five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme in which the first, second, and fifth lines have three feet and the third and fourth have two feet. | 49 | |
| 5962050939 | Ottava rima | An eight-line stanza with iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme ABABABCC | 50 | |
| 5962069229 | Sestina | Six six-line stanzas followed by a three-line stanza. The same six words are repeated at the end of lines throughout the poem in a predetermined pattern. The last word in the last line of one stanza becomes the last word of the first line in the next. | 51 | |
| 5969581849 | Italian/Petrarch Sonnet | Sonnet is divided into an octave. | 52 | |
| 5969581850 | Shakespearean Sonnet | Contains three quatrains and a final couplet. | 53 | |
| 5969581851 | Spenserian Sonnet | ABAB BCBCCDCD EE | 54 | |
| 5969581852 | Villanelle | Nineteen line poem made up of five tercets and final quatrain | 55 |
