Types of poetry and structure and meter

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Dramatic monologue

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Speaker “thinking aloud” in a poem, expressing ideas or thoughts without reply

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Ballad

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A song-like narrative poem

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Elegy

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A lyric poem of mourning; often(but not always) the stages of mourning: lamentation(grief), praise, acceptance

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Epic

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Long narrative poem that relates to great deeds or the journey of larger-than-life hero

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Epitaph

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Brief inscription on a gravestone or commemorative poem

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Free verse

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Unrhymed poem, no rules

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Idyll

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Short poem depicting a peaceful, country scene, or a long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds/extraordinary events in a distant past

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Limerick

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5-line poem, rhyme scheme: a-a-b-b-a. First, second, and fifth lines are three metrical feet; third and fourth are two metrical feet.

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Lyric

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Subjective, personal nature that expresses abstract ideas, perceptions, and feelings rather than telling a story

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Ode

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Serious and elaborate lyrical poem, praising or offering commentary on a person, place, or object. Classics occur in 3 parts.

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Pastoral

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Depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way

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Sonnet

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14 line lyric poem in a iambic pentameter

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Shakespearean sonnet

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3 quatrains and a couplet: abab cdcd efef gg

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Spenserian sonnet

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3 quatrains and a couplet: abab bcbc cdcd ee

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Petrarchan sonnet

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An octave and a sestet: abbaabba cdecde

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Sestina

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Six line stanzas followed by a tercet(39 lines total); same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in different order

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Spiritual

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Folk song, often a religious theme

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Terza rima

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3-line stanzas in chain phone of aba, bcb, cdc, ded; there is no limit to the number of lines

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Villanelle

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Poetic form with no meter, but a repletion of entire lines; the rhyme-and-refrain pattern of the villanelle can be schematized as A1bA2,abA1,abA2,abA1,abA2,abA1A2

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Scansion

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Process of analyzing a poem’a meter and rhythm

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Rhythm

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“Beat” of the poem, as achieved by arrangement of syllables

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Meter

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Arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry

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Foot

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Basic repeated sequence of meter comprised of two or more accented or unaccented syllables

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Anapestic

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3-syllable foot (intervene)

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Trochaic

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2-syllable foot (topsy)

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Iambic

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2-syllable foot (destroy)

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Dactylic

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3-syllable foot (merrily)

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Spondaic

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2 stressed syllables

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Pyrrhic

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2 unstressed syllables

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Line length

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Number of feet in a line of poetry

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Monometer

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One foot

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Dimeter

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Two feet

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Trimeter

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Three feet

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Tetrameter

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Four feet

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Pentameter

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Five feet

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Hexameter

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Six feet

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Heptameter

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Seven feet

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Octameter

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Eight feet

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter (mimic actual speech patterns)

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Alexandrine

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Line of poetry that had 12 syllables (often iambic)

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End-stopped

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Like of poetry in which the reader is meant to pause at the end of the line

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Enjambment

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Line of poetry which is not end-stopped, in which the thought continues into the next line without any pause

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Inversion

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Change in what would be considered "normal" syntax; aka yoda speak

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Stanza

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Grouping of lines of poetry

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Couplet

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Two lines

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Rhyming couplet

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Two lines with end rhyme

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Heroic couplet

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Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

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Tercet

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Three lines

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Quatrain

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four lines

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Sestet

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Six lines

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Octave

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Eight lines

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Canto

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Division, or "chapter" in a lengthy poem

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Caesura

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Purposeful pause in a poem, sometimes mid-line

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Parallelism

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Repetition of the syntactical structure of a line or phrase

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Refrain

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Repeating stanza or line

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Integral rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs within the middle of lines of poetry

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End rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs at the end of the lines of poetry; denoted with letters of the alphabet to signify which lines rhyme

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Approximate rhyme

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"Almost" rhyming; aka near rhyme or slant rhyme

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Feminine rhyme

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End rhyme that occurs on a final unstressed syllable

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Masculine rhyme

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End rhyme that occurs in a final stressed syllable