Elements of Style and Structure
Form
Rhyme
a composition in verse that rhymes
End rhyme
rhyme of terminal syllables of verses
Internal rhyme
rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line
Near rhyme
is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds.
Rhythm
Sonnet
a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme
Petrarchan
is a received form that has 14 lines and a slightly flexible rhyme scheme.
Shakespearean
of, relating to, or having the characteristics of Shakespeare or his writings
Spenserian
is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total
Ode
a lyric poem usually marked by exaltation of feeling and style, varying length of line, and complexity of stanza forms
Villanelle
a chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting typically of five tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets and together as the last two lines of the quatrain
Elegy
a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead
Free Verse
verse whose meter is irregular in some respect or whose rhythm is not metrical
an ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech
Caesura
can be understood as the physical structure of the poem
Blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter verse
Lyric
expressing direct usually intense personal emotion especially in a manner suggestive of song
a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody
Enjambment
the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines
Stanza
Tercet
Quatrains
Couplets
two successive lines of verse forming a unit marked usually by rhythmic correspondence, rhyme, or the inclusion of a self-contained utterance
a unit or group of three lines of verse
a unit or group of four lines of verse
Meter
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Feet
Iambic
a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
is a basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables.
Tetrameter
a line of verse consisting either of four dipodies (as in classical iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse) or four metrical feet :
Pentameter
a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet
systematically arranged and measured rhythm in verse