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Poetry: Vocab Pt. 2 Flashcards

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Burns Stanza

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Named after Robert Burns. Six lines (aaabab). Tetrameter in the a lines, dimeter/trimeter in the b lines.

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Ballad Stanza

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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!

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Elegiac Stanza

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Iambic pentameter quatrain (abab).

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Hardy Stanza

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Perfected by Hardy. Eight lines (aaabcccb). Tetrameter in line 1,3,5,6,7. Dimeter in 2. Trimeter in 4 and 8.

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In Memoriam Stanza

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Quatrain in iambic pentameter (abba). Named after Tennyson’s poem, In Memoriam

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Long Measure Stanza

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Four line stanza in iambic pentameter (abab) or (abcb)

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Ottava Rima Stanza

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Stanza of 8 iambic pentameter lines (abababcc)

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Rhyme Royal Stanza

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7 lined iambic pentameter stanza (ababbcc)

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Short Measure Stanza

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Four lines (abab) or (abcb). Lines 1,2,4 in iambic trimeter and line 3 iambic tetrameter. Popular in hymns.

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Spenserian Stanza

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Nine iambic lines (ababbcbcc). First 8 lines in pentameter and last in hexameter

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Yeats Stanza

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8 lined stanza, iambic throughout (aabbcddc). Pentameter in all lines except 4,6,7.

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Tera Rima Stanza

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3 lined stanza with interlocking rhyme (aba bcbc cdc). Created by Dante for The Divine Comedy.

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Villanelle

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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

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Prosody

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Principles of versification regarding rhyme, meter/rhythm, and stanza

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Meter

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Rhythm achieved by regular units of sound (feet). Four kinds of patterns: quantitative, accentuate, syllabic, and accentual-syllabic

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Acatelectic

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Metrically complete

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Accent

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Emphasis on a syllable

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Accentual-Syllabic Verse

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Poetry whose rhythm depends on the number of syllables and the pattern of accented and un accented syllables

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Anacrusis

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Having one or more extra beats at the beginning of a line of verse before the regular rhythm starts

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Catalexis

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Having the last foot of a line incomplete

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Caesura

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A pause within a line of poetry

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Dieresis

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Pause in a line at the end of a foot

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Common meter/common stanza

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Four lined stanza. Line 1 and 3 in iambic tetrameter and other two in iambic trimeter

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Counterpoint rhythm

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Hopkins named it this. Refers to the insertion of a different rhythm in a poem than the one already being used.

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Distributed/hovering/resolved stress

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This happens when two syllables “share” a stress in the meter

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Foot

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Unit of rhythm in poetry

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Breve

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Symbol for short or unstressed syllable

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Macron

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The symbol indicating a long or stressed syllable

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Ictus

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Stress on a syllable

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Beginning rhyme

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When the rhyme is in the first few syllables of the lines

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Broken rhyme/fused rhyme

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Breaking a word at the end of the line to preserve the rhyme

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Compound rhyme

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A sort of double rhyme that rhymes the primary and secondary stressed syllables (childhood and wildhood)

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Cross-compound rhyme

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Compound rhyme with abba pattern as in”tender” and “ferment”

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End rhyme

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Occurs at the end of lines in a poem

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Eye rhyme

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Words look like they should rhyme but don’t

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Feminine/double rhyme

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The rhyming stressed syllable is followed by an identical unstressed syllable (swallow and follow)

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Masculine rhyme

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Rhyme falls on the stressed, final syllable of the line

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Half/near/slant/oblique rhyme

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Imperfect rhyme accompanied by consonance

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Identical/redundant rhyme/rime riche

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Rhyming words with the same sounds, but different meanings

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Interlocking rhymes

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Rhyme pattern in which one line’s rhyme carries into the next stanza

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyme that takes place within a line of poetry

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Rhyme scheme

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Pattern of rhyme designated with letters of the alphabet

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