Form and Metre Flashcards

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What is a blank verse poem?

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A poem with an unrhyming iambic pentameter

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What is a free verse poem?

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A poem that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme or metrical pattern

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What is a Terza Rima poem?

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A poem with a series of tercets (three line stanzas) concluding with a couplet (two line stanza)

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What are epics?

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A lengthy, narrative work of poetry usually decribing a heroic feat

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What is a narrative poem?

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A poem which tells a story

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What is a pastoral poem?

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A poem which concerns the natural world

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What is a Petrachen sonnet?

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A poem of 14 lines, usually concerning love divided into an octet (8 line stanza) and a sestet (6 line stanza) with a volta in between (Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDCDCD)

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What is a Shakespearean sonnet?

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A poem of 14 lines, usually concerning love divided into three quatrains (4 lines stanzas), finishing with a couplet (2 line stanza) (Ryhme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)

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What is an elegy?

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A poem that reflects upon a death or loss with themes of mourning

Another name for an elegy is a lament

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What is an ode?

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A poem which is a tribute to something (not necessarily something dead)

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What is a ballad?

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A poem which tells a story which is set to music

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What is lyric poetry?

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Poems that concern emotion (as oppose to epic and dramatic poetry)

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What is a dramatic monologue?

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A poem, where the narrator (who is not the poet) tells a story in first person which involves other people. As the poem progresses, we learn about often unpleasant aspects of the narrator which they unwittingly revealed

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What is a didactic poem?

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A poem which gives advice

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What is the metre called where there is one foot per line?

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Monometer

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What is the metre called where there are two feet per line?

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Dimeter

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What is the metre called where there are three feet per line?

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Trimeter

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What is the metre called where there are four feet per line?

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Tetrameter

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What is the metre called where there are five feet per line?

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Pentameter

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What is the metre called where there are six feet per line?

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Hexameter

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What is the metre called where there are seven feet per line?

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Heptameter

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What is the metre called where there are eight feet per line?

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Octameter

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What is an iambic pattern like?

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Unstressed, stressed, e.g. ‘upon’

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What is a trochaic pattern like?

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Stressed, unstressed, e.g. ‘martian’

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What is an anapestic pattern like?

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Unstressed, unstressed, stressed, e.g. ‘To the beach’

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What is a dactylic pattern like?

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Stressed, unstressed, unstressed, e.g. ‘Underwear’

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What is a spondaic pattern like?

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Stressed, stressed, e.g. ‘blue-black’