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| 5929148524 | iamb | 1 unaccented + 1 accented | 0 | |
| 5929150665 | trochee | 1 accented + 1 unaccented | 1 | |
| 5929152779 | anapest | 2 unaccented + 1 accented | 2 | |
| 5929156243 | dactyl | 1 accented + 2 unaccented | 3 | |
| 5929160847 | spondee | 2 accented | 4 | |
| 5929162126 | scansion | the analysis of a poem's form and meter | 5 | |
| 5929164798 | foot | a pattern of syllables | 6 | |
| 5929167644 | meter | pattern of beats or accents | 7 | |
| 5929169607 | 1 foot | monometer | 8 | |
| 5929170777 | 2 feet | dimeter | 9 | |
| 5929170778 | 3 feet | trimeter | 10 | |
| 5929172083 | 4 feet | tetrameter | 11 | |
| 5929173101 | 5 feet | pentameter | 12 | |
| 5929173957 | 6 feet | hexameter | 13 | |
| 5929173958 | 7 feet | heptameter | 14 | |
| 5929175103 | 8 feet | octameter | 15 | |
| 5929176191 | 9 feet | nonometer | 16 | |
| 5929179502 | 2 lines | couplet | 17 | |
| 5929179503 | 3 lines | tercet | 18 | |
| 5929180631 | 4 lines | quatrain | 19 | |
| 5929180632 | 5 lines | cinquain | 20 | |
| 5929183070 | 6 lines | sestet | 21 | |
| 5929184164 | 7 lines | septet | 22 | |
| 5929185189 | 8 lines | octave | 23 | |
| 5929188294 | Masculine rhyme | last stressed syllable of the rhyming words match exactly | 24 | |
| 5929189899 | Internal rhymes | occur within the line and add to the music of the poem | 25 | |
| 5929193207 | Feminine rhyme | two consecutive syllables of the rhyming words with the first syllable stressed | 26 | |
| 5929200195 | Ballad | narrative that is simple; employs dialogue, repetition, and minor characterization; is written in quatrains; has a rhyme scheme and a refrain; composed of two lines of iambic tetrameter which alternate with two lines of iambic trimeter | 27 | |
| 5929214892 | Lyric poetry | highly personal and emotional | 28 | |
| 5929222260 | ode | formal lyric poem that addresses subjects of elevated stature | 29 | |
| 5929224095 | elegy | formal lyric poem written in honor of one who has died | 30 | |
| 5929231268 | dramatic monologue | relates an episode in a speaker's life through a conversational format that reveals the character of the speaker | 31 | |
| 5929240395 | Sonnet | most popular fixed form in poetry | 32 | |
| 5929243197 | Italian sonnet | divided into an octave and a sestet | 33 | |
| 5929561935 | villanelle | fixed form of poetry with six stanzas, five tercets, and a final quatrain | 34 |
