LES GOOOO EZY POETRY DUBS Flashcards
Metre
Measured arrangement of accents and syllables in poetry
Rhytihm
Relates to the variations of speed at which a poem is to be read. It can be determined by the length of syllables and by how the poem is punctuated
End-stopped lines
Lines where a sentence comes to close at the end of the line, thus causing a pause that disrupts the rhythm. Can prompt the reader to dwell on individual words.
Enjambment
Where the sentences carries over into the next line. Enjambment diminishes pauses and thus speeds up rhythm
Caesura
When punctuation is used to create a pause within a line. Draws emphasis to certain words
Vowel length
Supports a slower rhythm
Consonant clusters
Supports a faster rhythm
Full rhyme
When the two rhyming words begin with a different consonant sound, then have the same vowel sound, and end with the same consonant sound
Half rhyme
When only single consonant or vowel sounds are the same
End-rhyme
Rhyme at the end of the line
Internal rhyme
Rhyme within a line
Stanza with two lines
Couplet
Stanza with three lines
Tercet
Stanza with four lines
Quatrain
Stanza with five lines
Quintet
Stanza with six lines
Sestet
Stanza with eight lines
Octet
Synaesthesia
When the invocation of one sense is described as simultaneously invoking another
Sonnet
Usually a single stanza of fourteen lines or an octet followed by a sestet. Written in iambic pentameter and deals with loft subject matter
Ballad
A song which tells a story. Usually contains quatrains
Lyric
Short non narrative poem in which a single speaker presents a state of mind or emotional status
Free Verse
Verse which does not rhyme and which has lines of varying lengths according to the ebb and flow of the poet’s emotions
