Verse Vocab for Keats Flashcards
Iamb
Rhythm: buh Buh
Pattern: Unstressed/stressed
Trochee
Rhythm: Buh buh
Pattern: Stressed/unstressed
Spondee
Rhythm: Buh Buh
Pattern: Stressed/stressed
“We real”
Anapest
Rhythm: buh buh Buh
Pattern: Unstressed/unstressed/stressed
Dactyl
Rhythm: Buh buh Buh
Pattern: Stressed/unstressed/stressed
Verse
Poetry structured by both a consistent metrical pattern and a consistent rhyme scheme
Blank verse
Poetry structured by consistent meter but an inconsistent rhyme scheme
Free verse
poetry with inconsistent meter and rhyme
Poetic feet
individual rhythmic units made up of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables; types of feet include iambs, trochees, spondees, anapest, and dactyle
rhythm
metered patterns within poetry verses modulating the reader’s experience of the poem’s sound, tension, and time
sonnet
structure of 14 lines
ode
-ten-line stanzas w/ specific rhyme scheme; elaborately structured; praises or glorifies an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally.
3 types of ode
the Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular.
3 parts parts of an ode
the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also enter
irregular ode
uses rhyme, but not the three-part form of the Pindaric ode, nor the two- or four-line stanza of the Horatian ode.
pindarics
a class of loose and irregular odes greatly in fashion in England during the close of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century;
according to Milton,
“The measure of verse used in the chorus is of all sorts, called by the Greeks ‘monostrophic’, or rather ‘apolelymenon’, without regard had to strophe, antistrophe or epode, which were a kind of stanzas framed only for the music, then used with the chorus that sung; not essential to the poem and therefore not material; or, being divided into stanzas or pauses, they may be called ‘alloeostropha’.”
The English ode’s most common rhyme scheme
ABABCDECDE
Pyrric
the pyrrhic consists of two unaccented syllables together. (to a)
internal rhyme
rhymes in the middle of lines
end rhyme
rhymes at the ends of lines
slant rhyme
“rhyming words” sound similar without a true rhyme; also dubbed half-rhymes or off-rhymes (goat/slow)
sight rhyme
two words end with the same spelling but different sounds
alliteration
the repetition of a consonant sound: Billy Bob burnt Busy Bills bumblebee;
assonance
the repetition of a vowel sound: Billy wins his millions limping,
