Basic Poetry Flashcards
Form
Physical structure (lines, rhythm, repetition)
Acrostic poetry
First letter in each line spells some thing
Feet/foot
Basic repeated sequins, composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables
Iambic foot
Unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable
“des-TROY, ins-PIRE“
Anapestic foot
Two unstressed syllables, followed by one stressed syllable
Inter-VENE, under-STAND
Dactylic foot
Stressed syllable, followed by two unstressed syllables
MERR-ily, FEL-lowship
Trochaic foot
Two syllables, the first stressed, and the second is unstressed
TOP-sy, HIGH-way
Iambic Pentameter
Five unaccented/accented feet per line, commonly used by Shakespeare.
Meter
Organization of words, so they have a rhythm
Syllabic meter
A general counting of syllables per line
Accentual
A counting of accents only per line
Accentual syllabic
A counting of syllables and accents
Quantitative
Measures duration of words, measured as short or long syllables
Rhyming
Repetition of syllables typically at the end of the line
Eye/visual rhymes
Flood + wood