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| 7445326195 | Alliteration | The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (e.g. map-moon, kill-code, preach-approve) | 0 | |
| 7445334001 | Anapest | A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (e.g. "understand") | 1 | |
| 7445344634 | Anapestic Meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests | 2 | |
| 7445347212 | Approximate rhyme | Also known as an imperfect rhyme, near rhyme, slant rhyme, or oblique rhyme, this is a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes (e.g. arrayed-said) | 3 | |
| 7445440209 | Assonance | The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words (e.g. hat-ran-amber, vein-made) | 4 | |
| 7445470564 | Ballad meter | Stanzas formed of quatrains of iambs in which the first and third lines have four stresses (tetrameter) and the second and fourth lines have three stresses (trimeter). Usually, the second and fourth lines rhyme (abcb), although this meter is not followed strictly | 5 | |
| 7445846034 | Blank verse | Poetry with a meter, but not rhymed, usually in iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 7446387796 | Consonance | The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (e.g. book-plaque-thicker) | 7 | |
| 7446395920 | Couplet | Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme | 8 | |
| 7446407456 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (e.g. merrily) | 9 | |
| 7446412093 | Dactylic meter | A meter in which the majority of the feet are dactyls | 10 | |
| 7446415531 | End rhyme | Rhymes that occur at the ends of lines | 11 | |
| 7446419428 | End-stopped line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation -- the opposite of enjambment | 12 | |
| 7446426840 | Enjambment | Also known as a run-on line, this is a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line -- the opposite of an end-stopped line | 13 | |
| 7446466603 | English/Shakespearean Sonnet | A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is often structured into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the eighth line | 14 | |
| 7446481392 | Feminine rhyme | A rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate syllable of the words (e.g. picky-tricky) | 15 | |
| 7446498714 | Foot | The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. It usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables | 16 | |
| 7446505716 | Free verse | Nonmetrical verse; poetry written in this style is arranged in lines but has no fixed pattern or expectation | 17 | |
| 7446511623 | Half rhyme | Consonance on the final consonants of the words involved | 18 | |
| 7446518334 | Heroic couplet | Poems constructed by a sequence of two (usually rhyming) lines of verse in iambic pentameter; if these two lines do not rhyme, they are usually separated by an extra white space | 19 | |
| 7446528682 | Iamb | A metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (e.g. rehearse) | 20 | |
| 7446533627 | Iambic meter | A meter in which the majority of feet are iambs; the most common English meter | 21 | |
| 7446537369 | Internal rhyme | A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words occur within the line | 22 | |
| 7446540594 | Italian/Petrarchan sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde | 23 | |
| 7446574876 | Masculine rhyme | A rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words (e.g. rhyme-sublime) | 24 | |
| 7446578631 | Meter | Regularized rhythm; an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time | 25 | |
| 7446593238 | Octave | An eight-line stanza; the first eight lines of a sonnet, especially one structured in the manner of an Italian sonnet | 26 | |
| 7446609537 | Perfect rhyme | A rhyme in which the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to another. Types include masculine and feminine, among others | 27 | |
| 7446614315 | Pentameter | A metrical line containing five feet | 28 | |
| 7446616924 | Quatrain | A four-line stanza; a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme | 29 | |
| 7446626798 | Refrain | A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanziac form | 30 | |
| 7446636754 | Rhyme | The repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work. Lyricists may exploit it in multiple ways within a verse. | 31 | |
| 7446657896 | Rhyme scheme | Any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas | 32 | |
| 7446660258 | Scansion | The process of measuring verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern, and noting significant variations from that pattern | 33 | |
| 7446686808 | Sestet | A six-line stanza; the last six lines of a sonnet structured on the Italian model | 34 | |
| 7446690116 | Spondee | A metrical foot consisting of two equally accented syllables (e.g. true-blue) | 35 | |
| 7446698413 | Stanza | A group of lines whose metrical pattern (and usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout a poem | 36 | |
| 7446702610 | Syntax | The arrangement of words to form phrases, clauses, and sentences; sentence construction | 37 | |
| 7446706750 | Terza Rima | A three-line stanza form borrowed from the Italian poets. The rhyme scheme is: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. | 38 | |
| 7446714213 | Tetrameter | A metrical line containing four feet | 39 | |
| 7446714214 | Trimeter | A metrical line containing three feet | 40 | |
| 7446719463 | Triple meter | A meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables (actually, if more than 25% of the feet in a poem are triple, its effect is still similar, as opposed to having a feel of entirely disyllabic feet). Anapestic and dactylic are both this type of meter | 41 | |
| 7446750328 | Trochaic meter | A meter in which the majority of feet are trochees | 42 | |
| 7446753687 | Trochee | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable (e.g. barter) | 43 |
