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| 5875193487 | Accentual Verse | has a fixed number of stresses per line regardless of the number of syllables that are present. |  | 0 |
| 5875238106 | Anapest | Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable | 1 | |
| 5875247730 | Ballad | A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. | 2 | |
| 5875255340 | Blank Verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter. | 3 | |
| 5875261616 | Cadence | rhythmic rise and fall | 4 | |
| 5875267026 | Caesura | a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence. | 5 | |
| 5875280047 | Choriamb | a metrical foot consisting of two short (or unstressed) syllables between two long (or stressed) ones. | 6 | |
| 5875332729 | Common Measure | a metrical pattern for hymns in which the stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately rhyming abcb or abab. (Also called common meter) | 7 | |
| 5875347058 | Conceit | a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. | 8 | |
| 5875355239 | Dactyl | a metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which first one is accented followed by second and third unaccented syllables (accented/unaccented/unaccented) in quantitative meter such as in the word "humanly." | 9 | |
| 5875505725 | Dimeter | a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet. | 10 | |
| 5875505726 | Double Dactyl | Difficult light verse form invented by the American poet Anthony Hecht, consisting of two quatrains where the first three lines are two dactyls e.g. 'Higgledy-piggledy' and the fourth is a dactyl and a macron. The last word of each quatrain must also rhyme. | 11 | |
| 5875509971 | End-Stopped | a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation | 12 | |
| 5875509972 | Eye Rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation | 13 | |
| 5875511968 | Foot | a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 14 | |
| 5875519660 | Hendecasyllabic | a line of eleven syllables, used in Ancient Greek and Latin quantitative verse as well as in medieval and modern European poetry. | 15 | |
| 5875519661 | Heptameter | a verse line containing seven feet | 16 | |
| 5875521653 | Hexameter | a verse line containing six feet | 17 | |
| 5875521654 | Iamb | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 18 | |
| 5875525006 | Internal Rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 19 | |
| 5875525007 | Limerick | a comic verse, containing five anapestic (unstressed/unstressed/stressed) lines in which the first, second and fifth lines are longer, rhyme together and follow three metrical feet, while the third and fourth lines rhyme together, are shorter and follow two metrical feet. | 20 | |
| 5875526651 | Lyric Poem | A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker | 21 | |
| 5875526652 | Meter | a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem. | 22 | |
| 5875528224 | Monometer | a line of verse of one measure or foot. | 23 | |
| 5875528225 | Narrative Poem | a poem that tells a story | 24 | |
| 5875529770 | Octameter | a line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet | 25 | |
| 5875529771 | Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet | 26 | |
| 5875536335 | Quantitative Meter | in classical Greek and Latin poetry measures the length and shortness of vowel syllables, and is the heart of the dactylic hexameter, which defines the epic poetry of the Greeks and Romans. | 27 | |
| 5875536336 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. | 28 | |
| 5875539381 | Slant Rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme | 29 | |
| 5875539382 | End Rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 30 | |
| 5875542804 | Feminine Rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables--running, gunning; properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed | 31 | |
| 5875542805 | Identical Rhyme | Rhyming of the same word often at the end of a line of verse | 32 | |
| 5875545366 | Masculine Rhyme | a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable--spent, went | 33 | |
| 5875547752 | Monorhyme | a poem in which all the lines have the same end rhyme. | 34 | |
| 5875548905 | Rhyme Royal | a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh. | 35 | |
| 5875548906 | Rhythm | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 36 | |
| 5875550189 | Scansion | to divide the poetry or a poetic form into feet by pointing out different syllables based on their lengths. | 37 | |
| 5875550190 | Sestet | the last six lines of a sonnet. | 38 | |
| 5875554143 | Shakespearean Sonnet (English) | There are fourteen lines. The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet. The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef. The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg. | 39 | |
| 5875559910 | Petrarchan Sonnet (Italian) | a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd. | 40 | |
| 5875563619 | Spenserian | a sonnet in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet and the rhyme scheme is abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee | 41 | |
| 5875563620 | Spondee | a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables. | 42 | |
| 5875564911 | Stress | the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others; the arrangement of stresses within a poem is the foundation of poetic rhythm. | 43 | |
| 5875564912 | Syllable | Rhythm is a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form. | 44 | |
| 5875566766 | Tercet | a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet. | 45 | |
| 5875568057 | Terza Rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. | 46 | |
| 5875568058 | Tetrameter | line of poetic verse that consists of four metrical feet. | 47 | |
| 5875571651 | Trimeter | line of poetic verse that consists of three metrical feet. | 48 | |
| 5875571652 | Trochee | A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable | 49 | |
| 5875574933 | Vers Libre (free verse) | an open form of poetry that abandons consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or other forms of musical pattern. | 50 | |
| 5875577855 | 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. | 51 |
