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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
Lyric
A poem with a shape that suggests its subject
concrete poem
A pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter
Couplet
A story,wether in prose or verse,involving events ,characters, and what the characters say and do
Narrative
A sonnet (fourteen lines or iambic pentameter) divided into three quatrains and concluding couplet with the following rhyme scheme:abab cdcd efef gg.
English (Shakespeare) sonnet
A fourteen-line poem with two sections,an octave (eight-line stanza rhyming abbabba), and a sestet (six-line-stanza rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde )
Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet
Dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem praising and glorifying an individual,commemorating an event,or describing nature intellectually rather then emotionally
Ode
Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
Blank verse
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.
Free verse
Long,dignified narrative poem,which gives the account a hero important to his nation ir race
Epic
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
Elegy
Simple narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited
Balled
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
Light verse
Humorous nonsense verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba:a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter
Limerick
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Meter
The unit of a meter.A foot is composed generally of two or three syllables containing one stressed syllables
Foot