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Subjective,reflective poetry with a regular rhyme scheme which reveals the poet’s thoughts and feelings to create a single,unique impression

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Lyric

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A poem with a shape that suggests its subject

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concrete poem

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A pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter

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Couplet

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A story,wether in prose or verse,involving events ,characters, and what the characters say and do

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Narrative

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A sonnet (fourteen lines or iambic pentameter) divided into three quatrains and concluding couplet with the following rhyme scheme:abab cdcd efef gg.

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English (Shakespeare) sonnet

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A fourteen-line poem with two sections,an octave (eight-line stanza rhyming abbabba), and a sestet (six-line-stanza rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde )

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Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet

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Dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem praising and glorifying an individual,commemorating an event,or describing nature intellectually rather then emotionally

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Ode

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Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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Rhythmical but non-metrical,non rhyming lines.these may have a deliberate rhyme or
Cadence but seem to disappoint the readers expectations for a formal metre,such as a iambic pentameter.

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Free verse

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Long,dignified narrative poem,which gives the account a hero important to his nation ir race

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Epic

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A greek or Latin for in alternating dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter lines ; and a melancholy poem lamenting its subjects death but ending in consolation

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Elegy

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Simple narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited

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Balled

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General category of poetry written to entertain,such as lyric poetry,epigrams,limericks.It can also have a serious side,as in parody or satire

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Light verse

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Humorous nonsense verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba:a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter

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Limerick

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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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Meter

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The unit of a meter.A foot is composed generally of two or three syllables containing one stressed syllables