Poetry: Vocab Pt. 2 Flashcards
Burns Stanza
Named after Robert Burns. Six lines (aaabab). Tetrameter in the a lines, dimeter/trimeter in the b lines.
Ballad Stanza
Familiar in folk ballads. Usually four lines (abcb). First and third line in tetrameter, second and fourth in trimeter. !Used by Emily Dickinson a lot!
Elegiac Stanza
Iambic pentameter quatrain (abab).
Hardy Stanza
Perfected by Hardy. Eight lines (aaabcccb). Tetrameter in line 1,3,5,6,7. Dimeter in 2. Trimeter in 4 and 8.
In Memoriam Stanza
Quatrain in iambic pentameter (abba). Named after Tennyson’s poem, In Memoriam
Long Measure Stanza
Four line stanza in iambic pentameter (abab) or (abcb)
Ottava Rima Stanza
Stanza of 8 iambic pentameter lines (abababcc)
Rhyme Royal Stanza
7 lined iambic pentameter stanza (ababbcc)
Short Measure Stanza
Four lines (abab) or (abcb). Lines 1,2,4 in iambic trimeter and line 3 iambic tetrameter. Popular in hymns.
Spenserian Stanza
Nine iambic lines (ababbcbcc). First 8 lines in pentameter and last in hexameter
Yeats Stanza
8 lined stanza, iambic throughout (aabbcddc). Pentameter in all lines except 4,6,7.
Tera Rima Stanza
3 lined stanza with interlocking rhyme (aba bcbc cdc). Created by Dante for The Divine Comedy.
Villanelle
French form. 19 lines with only two rhymes laid out according to a fixed pattern. Dylan’s poem, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Prosody
Principles of versification regarding rhyme, meter/rhythm, and stanza
Meter
Rhythm achieved by regular units of sound (feet). Four kinds of patterns: quantitative, accentuate, syllabic, and accentual-syllabic
Acatelectic
Metrically complete
Accent
Emphasis on a syllable
Accentual-Syllabic Verse
Poetry whose rhythm depends on the number of syllables and the pattern of accented and un accented syllables
Anacrusis
Having one or more extra beats at the beginning of a line of verse before the regular rhythm starts
Catalexis
Having the last foot of a line incomplete
Caesura
A pause within a line of poetry
Dieresis
Pause in a line at the end of a foot
Common meter/common stanza
Four lined stanza. Line 1 and 3 in iambic tetrameter and other two in iambic trimeter
Counterpoint rhythm
Hopkins named it this. Refers to the insertion of a different rhythm in a poem than the one already being used.
Distributed/hovering/resolved stress
This happens when two syllables “share” a stress in the meter
Foot
Unit of rhythm in poetry
Breve
Symbol for short or unstressed syllable
Macron
The symbol indicating a long or stressed syllable
Ictus
Stress on a syllable
Beginning rhyme
When the rhyme is in the first few syllables of the lines
Broken rhyme/fused rhyme
Breaking a word at the end of the line to preserve the rhyme
Compound rhyme
A sort of double rhyme that rhymes the primary and secondary stressed syllables (childhood and wildhood)
Cross-compound rhyme
Compound rhyme with abba pattern as in”tender” and “ferment”
End rhyme
Occurs at the end of lines in a poem
Eye rhyme
Words look like they should rhyme but don’t
Feminine/double rhyme
The rhyming stressed syllable is followed by an identical unstressed syllable (swallow and follow)
Masculine rhyme
Rhyme falls on the stressed, final syllable of the line
Half/near/slant/oblique rhyme
Imperfect rhyme accompanied by consonance
Identical/redundant rhyme/rime riche
Rhyming words with the same sounds, but different meanings
Interlocking rhymes
Rhyme pattern in which one line’s rhyme carries into the next stanza
Internal rhyme
Rhyme that takes place within a line of poetry
Rhyme scheme
Pattern of rhyme designated with letters of the alphabet
