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Poem Structures Flashcards

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Identified by assignment the need word/rhyme a letter of the alphabet (ex: Ode on a Grecian Urn: abab cdedce)

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Rhyme scheme

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“Paragraph” of a poem; can be categorized by how the lines are chunked together & what the rhyme scheme looks like

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Stanza

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A two-lined stanza

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Couplet

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Four lines that follow a set rhyme scheme

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Quatrain

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A five lined stanza (most popular in limericks)

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Quintet

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abcb or abab rhyming structure; usually part of a longer poem

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Ballad stanzas

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14 lines with a set rhyme scheme w/ three main categories (Shakespearean/English, Italian/Petrarchan, Spenserian)

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Sonnet

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Three quatrains and a couplet (abab, cdcd, efef + gg)

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Shakespearean/English sonnet

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One octave (abba abba) and a sestet (cdc cdc)

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Italian/Petrarchan sonnet

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Three quatrains (abab bcbc cdcd) and a couplet (ee)

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Spenserian sonnet

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The repetition or stressing of words or phrases

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Meter

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Metrical unit, composed of both stressed and unstressed syllables

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Foot

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How are lines in poetry categorized? (Ex: trochaic trimeter or iambic pentameter)

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Meter + Number of feet

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Unstressed + stressed (alone, disgrace, belong)

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Iambic

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Stressed, unstressed (happy, planet, porous)

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Trochaic

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Unstressed, unstressed, stressed (interrupt, contradict, engineer)

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Anapest

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Stressed, unstressed, unstressed (bicycle, Delaware, desperate)

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Dactyl

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