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| 3-syllable foot of 2 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed (a-na-PEST) |
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| 4-line stanza, 1st and 3rd in unrhymed iambic pentameter, 2nd and 4th in rhyming iambic pentameter (Lovett, "Baltimore") |
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| poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (Pope, Essay on Criticism: "and ten dull words oft creep in one dull line") |
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| pause within a line of poetry, usu. with punctuation (or a "gap" in Beowulf) |
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| pair of metrically equal lines that rhyme (the last 2 lines a typical Shakespearean sonnet; Pope, Essay on Criticism) |
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| 3-syllable foot of 1 stressed syllable followed by two unstressed (NERD-i-ly) |
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| spilling over of 1 line's grammar/sense into the next, creating suspense or purposeful miscues (Campbell, "Incarnation") |
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| a rhythmic unit in verse, usu. of 2 or 3 syllables (anapest, dactyl, iamb, spondee, trochee) |
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| poetry based on "natural rhythms" rather than structured metrical schemes (Whitman, "When I Heard the...Astronomer") |
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| 2-syllable foot of one unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed (sha-ZAM!) |
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| countable rhythmic patterns in structured poetic forms ("One, two, three, four - get your booty on the floor") |
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| 8-line stanza or the first 8 lines of a Spenserian sonnet (Sidney, "Sonnett XXXI: With How Sad Steps, O Moon") |
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| 4-line stanza or 1 of 3 4-line movements in a Shakespearean sonnet (Frost, "In a Disused Graveyard") |
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| a group of words, phrases or lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at a stanza's end (Poe, "The Raven") |
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| identity or similarity in the sounds of neighboring words (internal-, end-, slant-) |
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| pattern of rhyming sounds in a stanza or a poem, usu with specific reference to end rhyme |
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| drumbeats, heartbeats, keepings of time, stresses in lines- the real event described by meter |
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| 6-line stanza, or the final 8 lines of a Spenserian sonnet (Sidney, "Sonnet XXXI: With How Sad Steps, O Moon") |
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| 2-syllable foot of 2 stressed syllables (Peele: HOT SUN, | COOL FIRE, | TEMPered with | SWEET AIR) |
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| the poetic equivalent of a paragraph; frequently of specific length in highly structured forms (Spenser, The Fairie Queene) |
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| a 3-line stanza (Danta, Inferno) |
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| a 2-syllable foot of 1 stressed syllable, followed by 1 unstressed (Blake: TYger, TYger, BURNing BRIGHT...) |
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