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Elements of Style and Structure
The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form. Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter.
A poetic foot is a basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables.
Blank verse is unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines.
Couplet, a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning.
A tercet is a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.
Elegy is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
The villanelle is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains.
Caesura is a break between words within a metrical foot.
Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization.
enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line
A tetrameter is a verse of four measures.
End Rhyme is a poem that has lines ending with words that sound the same.
An ode is a type of lyrical stanza. It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.
Rhythm in poetry can be thought of as the beat or the flow of a poem. It is made up of beat and repetition, so it usually refers to features of sound.
Free verse is an open form of poetry, it does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern.
Half rhyme or imperfect rhyme, sometimes called near-rhyme, lazy rhyme, or slant rhyme, is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds.
Meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry.
Quatrains are four line stanzas of any kind, rhymed, metered, or otherwise.
internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines.
Pentameter is a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable.
lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
A Shakespearean or English sonnet has fourteen lines, consisting of three groups of four lines each, followed by a single rhyming couplet.
A poem's form is its structure: elements like its line lengths and meters, stanza lengths, rhyme schemes (if any) and systems of repetition.
Rhyme is correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Iambic refers to the type of foot used, here the iamb, which in English indicates an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (as in a-bove).
Petrarchan is denoting a sonnet of the kind used by the Italian poet Petrarch, with an octave rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet typically rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde.