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a poem of 14 lines with an octive rhyming abbaabba and a sestet rhyming cdecde it avoids couplets in the sestet and limits rhymes to five. |
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a poem of 14 lines with 3 quatrains and one couplet quatrains are joined through linking rhymes abab bcbc cdcd ee
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a poem of 14 lines with three quatrains and one couplet. quatrains rhyme: abab cdcd efef gg. |
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| a figurative phrase used in old germanic languages as a simple noun. Examples: "the sea-wood" for ship; "the whale-road" for sea; "leavings of the file" for sword. |
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| repeated expression at the begining of two or more lines |
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| the repetition at theend of a clause of a word or phrase taht occurred at its begining. Emaple: "blood hath bought blood, and blows have answer'd blows." |
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| the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a line on to the next verse or couplet. |
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| Lines in which both the grammatical and structure of the sense reach completion at the end. |
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| a condensed form of expression in which elements customarily joined be conjenctions are presented in a series without conjunctions. Example: "veni, vidi, vici" (i came, i saw, i conqured) |
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| the term designates fanciful notion, ususally expressed through an elaborate analogy and pointing to a striking parallel between ostensible dissimilar things. a petrarchan conceit may elaborately and extensively compare love to some tangible object such as a rose, a ship, or a garde. |
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| the use of more conjunctions than is normal. Example: "...pursues his way, and swims, or sinks, or wades..." |
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| the repetition of initial identical consonant or vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables. |
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| same or similar vowel sounds in stresssed syllables taht end with different consonant sounds. |
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| the relation between words in which the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the vowel sounds that proceed them differ. Example: blood, food, good |
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| unrhymed but otherwise regular verse, usually iambic pentameter |
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the unit of rhythm in verse.
(Two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem. For example, an iamb is a foot that has two syllables, one unstressed followed by one stressed. An anapest has three syllables, two unstressed followed by one stressed.) |
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a foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented.
mannikin |
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| few instances of verse are totally free in all respects, but free verse usually lacks rhyme nad meter. William Blake is one of the few examples of respected poets who wrote much of their product in free verse. |
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| iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs |
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| a line of six feet. in latin or Greek, hexameter was the conventional medium for epic and didactic poetry |
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a line of five feet
serious verse in english since the time of chaucer have made pentameter the staple measure |
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a foot consisting of an unaccented syllable and an accented.
untamed |
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a foot consisting of an acccented syllable and an unaccented
happy |
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| rhyme that occurs at some place before the last syllable in a line |
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words taht by their sound suggest their meaning
hiss, buzz, sizzle |
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| a seven line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc |
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| a three line stanza, supposedly devised by Dante, with rhyme scheeme aba bcb cdc ded and so forth. |
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a fixed nineteen line form, originally french, employing only two rhymes and repeating two or the lines according to a set pattern. line one is repeated as lines 6,12,&18; line 3 as 9,15,&19; the first and thrid lines return as a rhymed couplet at the end. the scheeme of rhymes is aba aba aba aba aba abaa.
ex: do not go gentle into that good night. |
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