Structure Flashcards
Term used to describe poetic lines composed in a measure rhythmical pattern, that are often, but no necessarily, rhymed
Verse
The way we usually write and speak, no rhyme or economy of words
Prose
Section of a poem / like a paragraph in prose
Stanza
2 lines ( quatrain : 4 lines )
Couplet
Repeating words, lines, or ideas to make a point
Repetition
A line or group of lines repeated regularly or irregularly
Refrain
Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter (10 syllables, every other syllable is stressed; the way Shakespeare writes his plays)
Blank verse
Repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines
Rhyme
When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem
Meter
Term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry
Rhyme
