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,
anaphora
the repetition of the same word at the beginning of several lines
epistrophe
the repetition of the same word at the end of successive lines
three lines
tercet
four lines
quatrain
five lines
quintet
six lines
sestet
7 lines
septet
8 lines
octet
ballad quatrain
four-line stanza written in iambic tetrameter or alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter
mimesis
imitation of the ancient world; of nature; criterion of good art in romanticism, because it views these things in terms of messages that contain themselves (porteuse de sa propre pensée)
imagination
truly visionary, allowing artist to grasp higher forms of truth, which are inaccessible by scientific reason; does not nec. exclude the latter, nor does it require renouncing objectivity; romantics saw it as a shaping power, bc art doesn’t resurrect/recreate/reproduce– it is a source
unlike fancy, because fancy is a daydream/reverie–
occasional verse
Occasioned, having not a private but a public or social occasion. From Pindar’s Odes to Walt Whitman’s “When the Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” poets have found public occasions for writing, inc. memorial pieces, odes, tributes, epithalamia, funeral elegies, sonnets or odes memorializing a state occasion or historic event
