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| 9268927858 | monometer | 1 foot | 0 | |
| 9268927859 | dimeter | 2 feet | 1 | |
| 9268927860 | trimeter | 3 feet | 2 | |
| 9268927861 | tetrameter | 4 feet | 3 | |
| 9268927862 | pentameter | 5 feet | 4 | |
| 9268927863 | hexameter | 6 feet | 5 | |
| 9268927864 | heptameter | 7 feet | 6 | |
| 9268927865 | octameter | 8 feet | 7 | |
| 9268927866 | couplet | 2 lines | 8 | |
| 9268927867 | tercet | 3 lines | 9 | |
| 9268927868 | quatrain | 4 lines | 10 | |
| 9268927869 | cinquain | 5 lines | 11 | |
| 9268927870 | sestet | 6 lines | 12 | |
| 9268927871 | septet | 7 lines | 13 | |
| 9268927872 | octave | 8 lines | 14 | |
| 9268927873 | End rhyme | end sounds rhyme | 15 | |
| 9268927874 | Internal rhyme | occurs within the line and adds to the music of the poem | 16 | |
| 9268927875 | Masculine rhyme | most frequently used end rhyme. Last stressed syllables of rhyming words match exactly | 17 | |
| 9268927876 | Feminine rhyme | involves two consecutive syllables of the rhyming words, with the first syllable stressed | 18 | |
| 9268927877 | Iamb | ︶ / weakSTRONG | 19 | |
| 9268927878 | Trochee | / ︶ STRONGweak | 20 | |
| 9268927879 | Anapest | ︶ ︶ / weakweakSTRONG | 21 | |
| 9268927880 | Dactyl | / ︶ ︶ STRONGweakweak | 22 | |
| 9268927881 | Spondee | / / STRONGSTRONG | 23 | |
| 9268927882 | Ballad | A narrative, originally spoken or sung / has dialogue, repetition, minor characterization / written in quatrains / has a basic rhyme scheme and a refrain / composed of two lines of iambic tetrameter which alternate with two lines of iambic trimeter / Subject matter: events in the life of a folk hero, may retell historical events, the supernatural, disasters, good and evil, love and loss | 24 | |
| 9268927883 | Lyric | highly personal and emotional / may be as simple as a sensory impression or as elevated as an ode or elegy / subjective and melodious / often reflective in tone | 25 | |
| 9268927884 | Ode | formal lyric poem / addresses subjects of elevated nature / about one specific thing that the poet finds to be truly amazing and praiseworthy / can be centered on a person, an object, or something abstract like a feeling or an idea | 26 | |
| 9268927885 | Elegy | a formal lyric poem / written in honor of one who has died / Elegiac is the adjective that describes a work lamenting any serious loss | 27 | |
| 9268927886 | dramatic monologue | relates an episode in a speaker's life through a conversational format / reveals the character of the speaker / ASK: What is the situation? / Who is the speaker addressing and why? / What tactics is the speaker using to make his case? / Does the speaker change his mind? | 28 | |
| 9268927887 | Elizabethan (Shakespearean) Sonnet | sonnet is the most popular form of fixed poetry / usually iambic pentameter / always 14 lines / 3 quatrains + 1 couplet / quatrains may represent: Beginning, middle, end — Thesis, example, example — Past, present, future — Morning, noon, night — Birth, life, death / couplet may be a summary — conclusion — universal statement | 29 | |
| 9268927888 | Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet | usually iambic pentameter / always 14 lines / 1 octave + 1 sestet / By observing the natural break between the octave and the sestet and noting how the rhyme connects the lines in each, you should see that this form would be suitable for organizing the poem in the following ways: General to specific — Comparison and contrast — Question and answer — Cause and effect — Before and after | 30 | |
| 9268927889 | Villanelle | a fixed form in poetry / 6 stanzas = 5 tercets, and 1 quatrain / utilizes two refrains: The first and last lines of the first stanza alternate as the last line of the next four stanzas and then form a final couplet in the quatrain | 31 | |
| 9268927890 | Free verse | few rules or boundaries / does not rhyme or follow a meter / rhythm or cadence varies throughout the poem / though words don't rhyme, they flow along their own uneven pattern, allowing the poem to be free to find its own shape according to what the poet wants to say, but still allows the use of rhyme, alliteration, rhythms, cadences, etc. to achieve the effects that are appropriate | 32 |
