Poetry Terminology Flashcards by Nicole Lim

verses

If prose has paragraphs, poems have verses

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metrical pattern

Any repeating stressed and unstressed patterns in a rhythmic poem

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meter

the # of beats or stressed syllables per verse

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two stressed syllables

diameter

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three stressed syllables

trimeter

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four stressed syllables

tetrameter

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five stressed syllables

pentameter

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six stressed syllables

hexameter

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seven stressed syllables

septameter

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eight stressed syllables

octameter

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iamb/iambic

da DUM

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trochee/trochaic

DA dum

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spondaic

DA DUM

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anapest/anapestic

da da DUM

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dactyl/dactylic

DA dum dum

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blank verse

iambic pentameter with no rhymes

free verse

poems with no rhymes or meter

Alliteration

Repetition of initial vowel or consonant sounds (eg: pretty as a picture)

Assonance

Words having the same vowel sound, repetition of the same vowel (eg: Mike’s bike has bright white stripes; the repetition of the vowel “i”)