Structure AND Form
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| 313113867 | Aubade | a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn | |
| 313113868 | Ballad | a simple narrative poem, often incorporating dialogue that is written in quatrains, generally with a rhyme scheme of A B C D. | |
| 313113869 | Caesura | a break or pause within a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning. | |
| 313113870 | Couplet | two lines of rhyming poetry; often used by Shakespeare to conclude a scene or an important passage | |
| 313113871 | Elegy | a poem that laments the dead or a loss. | |
| 313113872 | Enjambment | a technique in poetry that involves the running on of a line or stanza. It enables the poem to move and to develop coherence as well as directing the reader with regard to form and meaning. | |
| 313113873 | Epic | a lengthy, elevated poem that celebrates the exploits of a hero. | |
| 313113874 | Epigram | a brief witty poem. Pope often utilizes this form for satiric commentary. | |
| 313113875 | Form | the shape or structure of a literary work | |
| 313113876 | Free Verse | poetry without a defined form, meter, or rhyme scheme | |
| 313113877 | Idyll | a type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time | |
| 313113878 | Lyric Poetry | a type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity; a large and inclusive category of poetry that exhibits rhyme, meter, and reflective thought. | |
| 313113879 | Metaphysical Poetry | refers to the work of poets like John Donne who explore highly complex, philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox. | |
| 313113880 | Narrative Poem | a poem that tells a story | |
| 313113881 | Octave | an eight-line stanza, usually combined with a sestet in a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet | |
| 313113882 | Ode | a formal, lengthy poem that celebrates a particular subject | |
| 313113883 | Quatrain | a four-line stanza | |
| 313113884 | Sestet | a six-line stanza, usually paired with an octave to form a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet | |
| 313113885 | Sestina | a highly structured poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter. It depends upon the repetition of six words from the first stanza in each of six stanzas. | |
| 313113886 | Sonnet | a 14-line poem with a prescribed rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter. | |
| 313113887 | Stanza | a unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem. | |
| 313113888 | Tercet | a three-line stanza | |
| 313113889 | Villanelle | a highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets, and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third lines throughout. | |
| 313113890 | Haiku | a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons. | |
| 313113891 | Cinquain | a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables. | |
| 313113892 | Tanka | Japanese poetry of five lines, the first and third lines composed of five syllables, the rest seven |
