Poetic Structures Flashcards
To remember the types of structures used in poems
The sun is shining bright
This is a lovely sight.
Repetition
For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings that then i scorn to change my state with kings.
Couplets
It is also known as ABAB rhyme scheme, it rhymes as “ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH.”
Alternate Rhyme
It often repeats like a couplet, uses rhyme scheme of “AAA.”
Triplet
It is a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme.
Monorhyme
It uses rhyme scheme of “ABBA”
Enclosed Rhyme
It uses tercets, three lines stanzas. Its interlocking pattern on end words follows ABA BCB CDC DED and so on.
Terza rima rhyme scheme
It contains three stanzas with the rhyme scheme of ABABBCBC followed by BCBC.
Ballade
Autumn moonlight
A worm digs silently
Into the chestnut
Haiku - 3 lines with 7 syllables, 5 syllables and another 5.
There was an old lady from Crewer
Who was riding a bike when it threw her
A butcher came by
And said a lady dont cry and fastened her on with a skewer
Limerick
the rhyme scheme of ABABCDECDE, which defines the shape of the ode as 10 lines per stanza.
Keats Odes Rhyme Scheme
A villanelle is a nineteen line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.
Villanelle
