Poetry Flashcards
What does the structure of a poem organize?
images, ideas, wods, and lines.
what are stanzas?
paragraphs of poetry
how many lines are in a couplet?
2 lines
how many lines are in a quatrain?
4 lines
how many lines are in a cinquain?
5 lines
how many lines are in a sestet?
6 lines
how many lines are in a octaves?
8 lines
Rhythm
the pattern of sounds created by the arrangement of words in a line.
Meter
a regular pattern of syllables.
what does meter set for a poem?
the overall rhythm
scansion
the analysis of the meter in a line of poetry
rhyme
repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words.
end rhyme
the rhyming of words at the end of a line
internal rhyme
the rhyming of words within a single line
slant rhyme
the sounds are similar but not identical
