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Poetry - Coggle Diagram
Poetry
Types of poems
Elegy: a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
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Ode: poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Quatrains: is a series of four-lines that make one verse of a poem, known as a stanza.
Shakespearean: is a poem with three quatrains, using a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef, followed by an ending couplet of two lines with a rhyme scheme of gg.
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Villanelle: is a poem of nineteen lines, and which follows a strict form that consists of five tercets
Literary devices
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Feet: is a basic repeated sequence of meters composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables.
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Pentameter: a literary device that can be defined as a line in verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet or beats.
Rhythm: a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
Types of verse
Blank verse: verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
Couplets: two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme
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Spenserian: verse form that consists of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a ninth line of six iambic feet
Tercet: is a three-lined verse, or a group, or unit of three lines.
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Types of rhymes
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Internal rhyme: is rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry, instead of at the ends of lines.
Near rhyme: two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common
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