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Poetry - Elements of Style and Structure - Coggle Diagram
Poetry - Elements of Style and Structure
TYPES OF POEMS
Elegy
: poem lamenting one who is dead
Ode
: a short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event.
Free Verse
: can rhyme or not, can have as many lines or stanzas, can be about anything
Sonnet
: a one-stanza, 14-line poem, written in iambic pentameter
Villanelle
: consists of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, the first and third lines of the first stanza repeat alternately in the following stanzas.
Lyric
: expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person
RELATED TO RHYMES
Couplets
: a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning
End rhyme
: when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
Internal rhyme
; rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines.
Near rhyme
: two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common
Rhyme
: he repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line
VERSES, LINES AND STANZAS
Tetrameter
:a verse of four measures.
Tercet
: a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.
Quatrains
: four line stanzas of any kind, rhymed, metered, or otherwise
Blank verse:
unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines.
TYPES OF SONNETS
Spenserian
: are fourteen lines long, as are all traditional sonnets and are contained within a single block of text
Shakespearean
: three quatrains, using a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef, followed by an ending couplet of two lines with a rhyme scheme of gg
Petrarchan
: has 14 lines and a slightly flexible rhyme scheme. The first eight lines, or octave, almost always follow an 'abbaabba' rhyme scheme, but the rhyme scheme of last six lines, or sestet, varies.
SYLLABLES
Feet
: a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry..
Iambic
: A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.
Pentameter
: a line of verse containing five metrical feet
STYLE AND STRUCTURE
Caesura
: metrical pause in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins.
Enjambment
: incomplete syntax at the end of a line
Form
structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition.
Meter
: The number of syllables. A pattern of emphasis on those syllables. imposes specific length and emphasis on a given line of poetry.
Rhythm
; the beat or the flow of a poem.