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| 8556606263 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 8556606264 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 1 | |
| 8556608667 | iamb | a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables | 2 | |
| 8556608668 | trochee | stressed, unstressed | 3 | |
| 8556609290 | spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables | 4 | |
| 8556609291 | dactyl | finger, toe | 5 | |
| 8556610280 | anapest | three-syllable foot, stress on third | 6 | |
| 8556611657 | dimeter | a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet | 7 | |
| 8556611658 | trimeter | a line of verse consisting of three metrical feet | 8 | |
| 8556613252 | pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet | 9 | |
| 8556613253 | hexameter | a verse line having six metrical feet | 10 | |
| 8556614404 | heptometer | a verse line having seven metrical feet | 11 | |
| 8556616493 | octameter | a verse line having eight metrical feet | 12 | |
| 8556618572 | near/slant rhyme | words that almost rhyme | 13 | |
| 8556618573 | masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 14 | |
| 8556620341 | feminine rhyme | lines rhymed by their final two syllables | 15 | |
| 8556620342 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 16 | |
| 8556622074 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 17 | |
| 8556623007 | triplet | 3 line stanza | 18 | |
| 8556628744 | tercet | 3 line stanza | 19 | |
| 8556630445 | rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. | 20 | |
| 8556630446 | caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 21 | |
| 8556631611 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end | 22 | |
| 8556632965 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 23 | |
| 8556633837 | sonnet | 14 line poem | 24 | |
| 8556635973 | Italian/Petrarchan sonnet | comprised of 1 octave and one sestet: ABBAABBA CDECDE | 25 | |
| 8556657021 | elizabethan sonnet | a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet | 26 | |
| 8556658383 | narrative poem | a poem that tells a story | 27 | |
| 8556658384 | dramatic poem | a poem that has a conflict | 28 | |
| 8556659574 | lyric poem | A short poem of songlike quality | 29 | |
| 8556659575 | haiku | 3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature | 30 | |
| 8556661541 | sestina | a highly structured poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter | 31 | |
| 8556662706 | villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 32 | |
| 8556662707 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 33 | |
| 8556665183 | ballad | a love song | 34 | |
| 8556666795 | elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 35 | |
| 8556666796 | epic | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | 36 | |
| 8556668389 | mock heroic epic | a parody of a heroic epic | 37 |
