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| 3830282965 | accentual verse | Verse whose meter is based upon the number of speech stresses per line, not upon the number of syllables. The unstressed syllables may vary, but the rate of accented syllables does not. Much popular poetry, such as ballads and folk songs in earlier time and rap and nursery rhymes today, is written in accentual meter. | 0 | |
| 3830282968 | anapest | A metrical foot in verse in which two unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable, as in "on a boat" or "in a slump" | 1 | |
| 3830282969 | anaphora | The repetition of the same word at the beginning of lines of verse, sentences, or parts of sentences. | 2 | |
| 3830282970 | antithesis | Words, phrases, clauses, or sentences set in deliberate contract to one another. | 3 | |
| 3830282971 | archaism | A word or phrase that is obsolete. | 4 | |
| 3830282972 | assonance | The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words, which creates a kind of rhyme. | 5 | |
| 3830282973 | ballad | A song or song-like poem that tells a story. | 6 | |
| 3830282974 | ballad stanza | the most common pattern of the ballad consists of four lines rhymed abcd or abab, in which the first and third lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth lines have three feet. | 7 | |
| 3830282975 | clerihew | a comic verse form named for its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley. A clerihew begins with the name of a person and consists of two metrically awkward, rhymed couplets. Humorous often insulting. | 8 | |
| 3830282976 | closed couplet | two rhymed lines that contain an independent and complete thought or statement. | 9 | |
| 3830282977 | closed form | a generic term that describes poetry written in an established pattern of meter, line, rhyme. | 10 | |
| 3830282978 | concrete poetry | a visual poetry in which the printed words and letters both spell out a meaning and compose a visual image on the page. | 11 | |
| 3830282979 | consonance | any repetition of consonants not located at the beginning of the words | 12 | |
| 3830282981 | couplet | a verse unit of two lines, usually rhymed and of equal length | 13 | |
| 3830282982 | dactyl | a metrical foot of verse in which one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables | 14 | |
| 3830282983 | dimeter | an uncommon verse meter consisting of two feet per line. | 15 | |
| 3830282984 | doggerel | crude verse that brims with cliche, predictable rhyme, and inept rhythm. | 16 | |
| 3830282985 | elegy | a lament or meditative poem, often written on the occasion of a death or other solemn event or theme. | 17 | |
| 3830282986 | end rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines, rather than within them | 18 | |
| 3830282988 | english sonnet | also called the SHAKESPEARIAN SONNET; written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme organized into three quatrain with a final couplet, usually abab, cdce, efef, gg. | 19 | |
| 3830282989 | enjambment | when one verse flows into another with grammatical pause--that is the opposite of end-stopped. | 20 | |
| 3830282990 | envoy | a short, summary stanza that appears at the end of certain poetic forms, and contains the poet's parting words. | 21 | |
| 3830282991 | episle | a poem addressed to a friend, lover or patron. | 22 | |
| 3830282992 | epitstrophe | the opposite of anaphora; repetition of the same word(s) at the end of lines, sentences, or clauses. | 23 | |
| 3830282993 | euphony | language that has both melodius sound and harmonious relation to meaning; comfort to the ear | 24 | |
| 3830282994 | exact rhyme | a full rhyme in which the sounds following the initial letter of the words are identical in sounds | 25 | |
| 3830282995 | eye rhyme | a false rhyme in which the spelling of the words implies an ordinary rhyme, but the pronunciations differ as laughter and daughter, idea and flea | 26 | |
| 3830282997 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two or more syllables with a stress on a syllable other that the last as in tur-tle | 27 | |
| 3830282998 | heptameter | a verse meter consisting of seven metrical feet or seven primary stresses per line | 28 | |
| 3830282999 | hexameter | a verse meter consisting of six metrical feet or six primary stresses per line | 29 | |
| 3830283000 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occur within a line of poetry as opposed to end rhyme | 30 | |
| 3830283001 | italian sonnet | also called PETRARCHAN SONNET | 31 | |
| 3830283002 | literary ballads | composed for literate readers by individual poets | 32 | |
| 3830283003 | meter | a systematic rhythmic of stresses in verse | 33 | |
| 3830283004 | monometer | a verse meter consisting of one metrical foot, or one primary stress per line | 34 | |
| 3830283005 | monosyllabic foot | a foot or unit of meter, that contains only one syllable | 35 | |
| 3830283006 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 36 | |
| 3830283007 | octameter | a verse meter consisting of eight metrical feet or eight primary stresses per line | 37 | |
| 3830283008 | octave | a stanza or grouping of eight lines | 38 | |
| 3830283009 | open form | verse that has no set scheme-no regular meter, rhyme, or stanzaic pattern | 39 | |
| 3830283011 | prosody | the study of metrical and rhythmic structure in poetry and porse. | 40 | |
| 3830283012 | quantitative meter | constructed on the principle of vowel length rather than stress | 41 | |
| 3830283013 | quatrain | stanza consisting of four line; most common stanza form | 42 | |
| 3830283014 | refrain | a word, phrase, line, or stanza repeated at intervals in a poem | 43 | |
| 3830283015 | rhythm | the pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem | 44 | |
| 3830283018 | sestet | a poem stanza or unit of six lines of verse. | 45 | |
| 3830283019 | sestina | a complex verse form in which six end words are repeated in a prescribed order through six stanzas | 46 | |
| 3830283021 | slant rhyme | the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different as in letter or litter. | 47 | |
| 3830283022 | sonnet | fourteen lines of iambic pentameter | 48 | |
| 3830283023 | spenserian stanza | nine lines long and predominantly iambic, with the first eight measuring five feet and the last six feet | 49 | |
| 3830283024 | spondee | a metrical foot of verse containing two stressed syllables | 50 | |
| 3830283025 | tercet | a group of three lines of verse usually all ending in the same rhyme | 51 | |
| 3830283026 | terza rima | a verse form made of three line stanzas that are connected by an overlapping rhyme scheme (abs, bcd, cdc) | 52 | |
| 3830283027 | tetrameter | a verse meter consisting of three metrical feet or three primary stresses per line | 53 | |
| 3830283030 | villanelle | consists of six stanzas containing two rhymes with two lines repeated in a prescribed pattern | 54 |
