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| an emphasis, or accent, placed on a syllable in speech. |
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| The unstressed syllable in a line of verse |
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| the recurring pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem. |
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| the study of metrical structures in poetry |
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| A practice used to describe rhythmic patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents, and indicating the cesuras |
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| A light but definite pause within a line of verse. Often appears near the middle of a line, but placement may be varied for rhythmic effect. |
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| A line of verse that does not end in punctuation but carries on grammatically to the next line. |
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| A line of verse that ends in a full pause, often indicated by punctuation |
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| the basic unit of measurement in metrical poetry. Each separate meter is identified by the pattern and order of stressed and unstressed syllables in its foot. |
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| A metrical foot of verse consisting of two stressed syllables |
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| verse meter based on the number of stresses per line, not the number of syllables |
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| the means by which a literary work expresses its content. the design of a poem. |
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| a traditional verse form requiring certain predetermined elements of structure. Ex: a stanza pattern, set meter, or predetermined line length. |
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| generic term that describes poetry written in a patter of meter, rime, lines, or stanzas. Adhers to a set structure. |
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| verse that has no set scheme-no regular meter, rime, or stanzaic pattern. also called free verse |
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| contains five iambic feet per line an is not rimed |
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| a two-line stanza in poetry, usually rimed and with lines of equal length |
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| two rimed lines of iambic pentameter that usually contain an independent and complete thought or statement. Also called heroic couplet |
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| a stanza consisting of four lines, it is the most common stanza form used in English-language poetry. |
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| A long narrative poem tracing the adventures of a popular hero. Epic poems are usually written in a consistent form and meter throughout. |
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| A very short, comic poem, often turning at the end with some sharp wit or unexpected stinger |
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| a fixed form of fourteen lines, traditionally written in iambic pentameter and rimed throughour |
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| italian sonnet or petrarchan sonnnet |
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| rimes the octave; the sestet may follow any rime pattern ,as long as it does not end in a couplet. The poem traditionally turns, or shifts in mood or tone, after the octave. |
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| english sonnect or Shakespearean sonnet |
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| has the following rime scheme organized into three quatrains and a concluding couplet: abab cdcd efef gg. The poem my shift in mood or tone between any of the rime clusters. |
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| poems that have neither a rime scheme nor a basic meter are in open form. |
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| from the french vers libre. Free verse is poetry whose lines follow no consistent meter. It may be rimed, but usually is not. In the last hundred years, free verse has become a common practice. |
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| poetic language printed in prose paragraphs, but displaying the careful attention to sound, imagery, and figurative language characteristic of poetry. |
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| a visual poetry composed exclusively for the page in which a picture or image is made of printed letters and words. Concrete poetry attempts to blur the line between language and visual objects, usually relying on puns and cleverness. |
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| a short lyric form borrowed from the French; its two opening lines are repeated according to a set pattern. often used for light verse but can carry emotional loads. |
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| trickiest of medieval fixed forms, said to have been invented in Provence in the thirteeth century by Arnaut Daniel. In six sixline stanzas, the poet repeats six end-words then reintroduces the six repeated words in a closing envoy of three lines. |
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| a fixed form originated by french courtyly poets in the middle ages. a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes. |
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| a quatrain in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abba. The form was named for the pattern used by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his poem In Memoriam |
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