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
End rhyme
Crocodile + Nile
Feminine/slant rhyme
Dicing + enticing
Identical rhyme
Me + me
Internal rhyme
I went to TOWN to buy a GOWN
Masculine rhyme
Hells/bells
Mono rhyme
The of the use of only one rhyme in a stanza
Alliteration/head rhyme
The careful cat burglar crept through the corridor
Assonance
Repetition of stressed vowel sounds within words with different and consonants (quite like)
Consonance
Repetition of identical, or similar confidence, it’s related to alliteration
