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| 5911994874 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 0 | |
| 5911994875 | ballad | form of poetry that tells a story, usually dramatic with vivid dialogue | 1 | |
| 5911994876 | cadence | rising and falling rhythm in speech | 2 | |
| 5911994877 | caesura | a pause in a line of verse- usually follows punctuation, although not always | 3 | |
| 5911994878 | conceit | an elaborate metaphor, usually associated with Metaphysical poetry | 4 | |
| 5911994879 | couplet | a two-line stanza, rhymes | 5 | |
| 5911994880 | didactic poem | a poem which teaches a lesson | 6 | |
| 5911994881 | dirge | a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief | 7 | |
| 5911994882 | elegy | poem set in the poet's meditations on death | 8 | |
| 5911994883 | end rhyme | rhyme located on the final syllable of a line | 9 | |
| 5911994884 | English sonnet | a sonnet with 3 quatrains and 1 couplet | 10 | |
| 5911994885 | enjambment | the continuation of the sentence or clause over a line-break | 11 | |
| 5911994886 | epic | long narrative poem that celebrates the good deeds of a hero in a ceremonious style | 12 | |
| 5911994887 | half rhyme/ near rhyme | rhyme that appears to rhyme in spelling, but does not | 13 | |
| 5911994888 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed "waken" and "forsaken" or "marry" and "tarry" | 14 | |
| 5911994889 | foot (poetic foot) | metrical unit in verse | 15 | |
| 5911994890 | free verse | poetry with no fixed meter | 16 | |
| 5911994891 | haiku | light verse, japanese, comprised of 17 syllables in 3 unrhymed lines of 5-7-5 syllables | 17 | |
| 5911994892 | iamb | a metrical unit consisting of 1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed syllable u/ | 18 | |
| 5911994893 | idyll | a short poem of an incident in country life in terms of idealized innocence or contenment | 19 | |
| 5911994894 | internal rhyme | rhyming within a line | 20 | |
| 5911994895 | Italian sonnet | 14-line poem comprised of an octave and a sestet | 21 | |
| 5911994896 | limerick | light verse consisting of 5 lines of aabba | 22 | |
| 5911994897 | lyric | a poem expressing a personal mood, feeling, or meditation of a single speaker | 23 | |
| 5911994898 | masculine rhyme | rhyme that falls on the last syllable at the end of verse lines "glow" and "no" | 24 | |
| 5911994899 | meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry | 25 | |
| 5911994900 | narrative poem | non-dramatic poem which tells a story like an epic or ballad | 26 | |
| 5911994901 | octave | an eight-lined stanza | 27 | |
| 5911994902 | ode | long lyric poem that commemorates or celebrates a special quality, object, or occasion | 28 | |
| 5911994903 | pastoral | deals with the life of shepherds, simple, rural existence, idealizes the uncorrupted or innocence of this life | 29 | |
| 5911994904 | quatrain | a four-line stanza | 30 | |
| 5911994905 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables | 31 | |
| 5911994906 | scansion | the study and reading of poetry for the meter and rhyme patterns | 32 | |
| 5911994907 | sestet | a 6-line stanza | 33 | |
| 5911994908 | sonnet | a 14-line poem of iambic pentameter- Italian, English, Spenserian | 34 | |
| 5911994909 | stanza | a grouping of lines in poetry usually organized by a rhyme pattern and meter | 35 | |
| 5911994910 | tercet | 3-line stanza | 36 | |
| 5911994911 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain | 37 | |
| 5911994912 | volta | a shift in thought or perspective | 38 | |
| 5911994913 | zeitgeist | the spirit of the age | 39 | |
| 5912011670 | dactyl | three syllables with stress on the final syllable | 40 | |
| 5912015264 | spondee | two stressed syllables | 41 | |
| 5912021923 | pyrrhic | two unstressed syllables | 42 | |
| 5912029582 | monometer | one foot line of poetry | 43 | |
| 5912031795 | dimeter | two foot line of poetry | 44 | |
| 5912031946 | trimeter | three foot line of poetry | 45 | |
| 5912034432 | tetrameter | four foot line of poetry | 46 | |
| 5912036990 | pentameter | five foot line of poetry | 47 | |
| 5912039483 | hexameter | six foot line of poetry | 48 | |
| 5912043147 | heptameter | seven foot line of poetry | 49 | |
| 5912043148 | octameter | eight foot line of poetry | 50 | |
| 5912045264 | triple rhyme | Last three syllables of a word or line rhyme (victorious and glorious, quivering and shivering) | 51 | |
| 5912072082 | triplet/tercet | Three line stanza or three lines of verse within a larger unit that usually rhymes a-a-a | 52 | |
| 5912102471 | heroic couplet | (Sometimes called closed couplet) Two successive rhyming verses that contain a complete thought within the two lines (Usually consists of iambic pentameter lines) | 53 | |
| 5917748000 | sestina | A poem composed of six six-line stanzas and a three-line conclusion called an envoi. Each line ends with one of six key words. The alternation of these six words in different positions - but always at the ends of lines - the poems six stanzas creates a rhythmic verbal pattern that unifies the poem. "The thirty-nine-line form is attributed to Arnaut Daniel, the Provencal troubadour of the twelfth century." | 54 | |
| 5917751320 | terza rima | An arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc., as in Dante's Divine Comedy. "Invented by the Italian poet Dante Allighiere in the late thirteenth century to structure his three-part epic poem, "The Divine Comedy"." | 55 |
