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| 1005311059 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. | 0 | |
| 1005311060 | Tercet, terzet rima | 3 line stanza | 1 | |
| 1005311061 | Quatrain, ballad stanza | 4 line stanza | 2 | |
| 1005311062 | Quintain, quintet, cinquain | 5 line stanza | 3 | |
| 1005311063 | Sexain, sixain, setet, sextain, sextet | A stanza of six lines | 4 | |
| 1005311064 | Septet | 7 line stanza | 5 | |
| 1005311065 | Octave, octet | 8 line stanza | 6 | |
| 1005311066 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 7 | |
| 1005311067 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech that typically laments the dead | 8 | |
| 1005311068 | Epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society | 9 | |
| 1005311069 | Narrative Poetry | poetry that tells a story | 10 | |
| 1005311070 | Lyric Poetry | A type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity; a large and inclusive category of poetry that exhibits rhyme, meter, and reflective thought | 11 | |
| 1005311071 | Pastoral Poetry | literary work dealing with shepherds and rustic life., highly conventionalized; it presents an idealized rather than realistic view of rustic life. | 12 | |
| 1005311072 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 13 | |
| 1005311073 | Free Verse | A poem "free" of regular meter and rhyme. The poem may have irregular line lengths or fragments, and non-conventional uses of grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. It is "free" of conventions, yet very deliberate in its use of words and form | 14 | |
| 1005311074 | Blank Verse | Similar to free verse, there is no rime scheme in the poem; but, unlike free verse, it must be written in iambic pentameter. Such poems may have many examples of internal rime but no pattern of end rime. Shakespeare wrote his plays primarily in blank verse. | 15 | |
| 1005311075 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. For example, an iamb or iambic foot is represented by ˘ ΄, that is, an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one; a syllabic measure of a line: iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, and spondee. | 16 | |
| 1174354699 | Sapphic | A type of poem deriving its name from the Greek poet Sappho, who wrote love lyrics of great beauty about 600 BC. The pattern consists of three lines of eleven syllables each and a fourth of five syllables. | 17 | |
| 1174354700 | Cento | A "patchwork" poem consisting of lines borrowed from various existing poems. | 18 | |
| 1174366287 | Scansion | Analysis of verse into metrical patterns | 19 |
