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8377851646CaesuraA natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.0
8377881408Epistrophethe repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences1
8377896267AnapesticA foot in poetry with two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.2
8377921947Dactylicstressed, unstressed, unstressed3
8377926439SpondaicTwo stressed syllables4
8377939521ConceitA fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor5
8377949332Terza Rimaa verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.6
8377949333Heroic Coupleta couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style7
8377956843LambYoung sheep8
8377963495Sestinaa poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet9
8377984887Villanellea 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.10
8377984888Free VersePoetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme11

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