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| 5034197420 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 0 | |
| 5034199570 | ballad | form of poetry that tells a story of a past affair, usually dramatic with vivid dialogue | 1 | |
| 5034236436 | conceit | an elaborate, "violent" metaphor, usually associated with Metaphysical poetry | 2 | |
| 5034241456 | couplet | a two-line stanza, rhymes | 3 | |
| 5035504301 | elegy | poem set in the poet's meditations on death, a poem of lament | 4 | |
| 5035683727 | end rhyme | rhyme located on the final word of a line | 5 | |
| 5035534234 | enjambment | the continuation of the sentence or clause over a line-break without regards to syntax or punctuation | 6 | |
| 5035566613 | epic | long narrative poem that celebrates the good deeds of a hero in a ceremonious style-- important to his nation or race | 7 | |
| 5035558804 | half rhyme/ near rhyme | rhyme that appears to rhyme in spelling, but does not-- imperfect rhyme, approximate | 8 | |
| 5035583443 | feminine rhyme | rhyme that occurs in the second to last syllable of a line-- "marry" and "tarry" | 9 | |
| 5035714880 | foot (poetic foot) | metrical unit in verse | 10 | |
| 5035637723 | free verse | poetry with unrhymed lines without regular rhythm | 11 | |
| 5035659678 | haiku | light verse, japanese, comprised of 17 syllables in 3 unrhymed lines of 5-7-5 syllables depicting a delicate image | 12 | |
| 5035693839 | iamb | a metrical unit consisting of 1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed syllable u/ | 13 | |
| 5035723986 | idyll | a short poem of an incident in country (pastoral) life in terms of idealized innocence or contentment | 14 | |
| 5035735038 | internal rhyme | rhyming within a line | 15 | |
| 5035739197 | limerick | light verse consisting of 5 lines of aabba, humorous and nonsensical | 16 | |
| 5035738337 | lyric | narrative poem which tells a story to be sung or recited | 17 | |
| 5035756569 | masculine rhyme | rhyme that falls on the last syllable at the end of verse lines "glow" and "no" | 18 | |
| 5035764423 | meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry | 19 | |
| 5035780047 | narrative poem | non-dramatic poem which tells a story like an epic or ballad-- deals with a single theme | 20 | |
| 5035785427 | octave | an eight-lined stanza | 21 | |
| 5035790928 | ode | long lyric poem deals with a single theme | 22 | |
| 5035809332 | pastoral | deals with the life of shepherds, simple, rural existence, idealizes the uncorrupted or innocence of this life | 23 | |
| 5035824813 | quatrain | a four-line stanza | 24 | |
| 5035827464 | rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables | 25 | |
| 5035837851 | scansion | the study and reading of poetry for the meter and rhyme patterns | 26 | |
| 5035845345 | sestet | a 6-line stanza | 27 | |
| 5035848975 | sonnet | a 14-line poem of iambic pentameter- Italian, English, Spenserian | 28 | |
| 5035875933 | stanza | a grouping of lines in poetry usually organized by a rhyme pattern and meter | 29 | |
| 5036004505 | volta | a shift in thought or perspective | 30 | |
| 5035883107 | zeitgeist | the spirit of the age | 31 | |
| 11527203182 | light verse | a category of poetry written to entertain | 32 | |
| 11527215383 | euphony | harmonious sound to produce a pleasing effect | 33 | |
| 11527222432 | cacophony | the use of inharmonious sounds in close conjunction for effect | 34 | |
| 11527237633 | epistrophe | repetition at the end of the line | 35 | |
| 11527242939 | anaphora | repetition at the beginning of a line | 36 |
