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| 56584243 | Rhythm | the recurrence of stresses and pauses in poetry | |
| 56584244 | Stress (Accent) | greater force given to one syllable | |
| 56584245 | Meter | stresses recurring at fixed intervals | |
| 56584246 | Slack Syllable | Unstressed | |
| 56584247 | Caesura | light but definite pause within a line | |
| 56584248 | End-Stopped | punctuation at the end of a line | |
| 56584249 | Run-On | line with no punctuation at the end | |
| 56584250 | Prosody | the study of metrical structures in poetry | |
| 56584251 | Scansion | the act of indicating stresses and pauses within a poem | |
| 56584252 | iambic foot | u/ | |
| 56584253 | anapestic foot | uu/ | |
| 56584254 | trochaic foot | /u | |
| 56584255 | dactylic foot | /uu | |
| 56584256 | Rising Meter | iambic (u/) and anapestic (uu/) | |
| 56584257 | Falling Meter | dactylic (/uu) and trochaic (/u) | |
| 56584258 | Monosyllabic foot | / | |
| 56584259 | Spondee | // | |
| 56584260 | Various meters | monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter | |
| 56584261 | Accentual Meter | the poet doens't write in feet, but instead counts accents per line | |
| 56584693 | Closed Form Poetry | poems that follow a pattern | |
| 56584694 | Open Form Poetry | poems that don't follow a pattern | |
| 56584695 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | |
| 56584696 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that contain a complete thought | |
| 56584697 | Heroic couplet | a couplet written in iambic pentameter | |
| 56584698 | Parallel | pairs of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences side by side in agreement or similarity | |
| 56584699 | Antithesis | Pairs of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences side by side in contrast or opposition | |
| 56584700 | Tercet | a group of three lines | |
| 56584701 | Terza rima | a type of poetry with tercets linked together by the rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, ded, efe, etc. | |
| 56586466 | Quatrain | a stanza consisting of four lines (Considered the building block of poetry.) | |
| 56586467 | Syllabic verse | poet establishes a pattern of certain number of syllables per line | |
| 56586468 | Acrostic | a poem in which the initial letter of each line, read downward spells out a word or words | |
| 56586469 | found poetry | poetry taken from the words "found" | |
| 56586470 | Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet | abba, abba, (cdcdcd), (cdecde), (cdccdc) - or any other combination that doesn't end in a couplet. A poet will state a problem in the octave and solve it in the sestet | |
| 56586471 | Shakespearean / English Sonnet | abab, cdcd, efef, gg - a poet will pursue one idea throughout the three quatrains, then end with a surprise in the couplet | |
| 56586472 | Octave | a group of eight lines | |
| 56586473 | Sestet | A group of six lines | |
| 56586474 | Epigram | A short poem ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up. | |
| 56586475 | Limerick | 5 anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba. these are always humorous and sometimes obscene. | |
| 56586476 | Clerihew | 4 lines rhyming aabb. The first line gives the person's name. This is humourous and whimsical and shows the subject from an unusual point of view. Hardly ever abusive or obscene. | |
| 56586595 | Sestina (song of sixes) | In six, six-line stanzas the poet repeats six end words in a prescribed order, then reintroduces the six repeated words (in any order) in a closing envoy of three lines | |
| 56586596 | Villanelle | Has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couple are at the close. This is 19 lines long, consisting of 5 tercets and one concluding quatrain. |
