forms of poetry Flashcards
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sonnet
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A fourteen line poem, written in iambic pentameter.
2
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free verse
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Poetry written with lines of irregular verse and often without rhyme
3
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narrative poem
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a poem that tells a story , told by one narrator or speaker and has a beginning middle and end.
4
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ballard
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has a clear rhythm and rhyme. iambic tetrameter (eight syllables) with lines of iambic trimeter (six syllables).
5
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villanelle
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five 3 line stanza then a quatrain the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas
