BB poetry notes Flashcards
iamb
short-long
blank verse
Iambic Pentameter
quatrain
group of 4 lines
prose poem
poem in paragraph form
Rhyme scheme of Italian sonnet
ABBAABBA followed by one of the three (CDCCDC) or (CDCDCD) or (CDECDE)
heroic couplet
2 lines of rhyming Iambic Pentameter
Do not go gentle into that good night is a perfect example of a
villanelle
free verse
no rhyme scheme or rythim
Villanelle
5 tersets and a quatrain with refrain and repeating lines
Dante’s inferno is written in
terra Rima (3 stanza that rhyme ABA BCB CDC etc)
amphibrachys
short-long-short
trochee
long-short
Petrarch
wrote sonnets to laura
open form
free verse
anapest
short-short-long
Dante’s lover from the inferno is?
Beatrice
Spondee
long-long
English sonnet is also known as
Shakespearian sonnet
Who guide Dante through Paradise?
Beatrice
Dactyl
long-short-short
quintain
group of 5 lines
sestina
medeval poem with 6 line in each stanza and 6 stanzas followed by an ending called a convoy that is a tervet (also known as a tornado). It uses the same 6 end wards through out the poem
terset
group of 3 lines
Tanka
5 7 5 7 7 (syllabes) [an extended haiku]
