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POETIC ELEMENTS
ballada quatrain alternating iambic tetrameter in
lines one and three with iambic trimeter in lines two and four. The
rhyme scheme of a ballad is abcb. |
caesuraa natural break or pause in a line of poetry,
usually near the middle of the line, usually marked by
punctuation. |
catalexisdropping an unstressed syllable from the end
of a trochaic or dactylic line. |
dactyla three-syllable foot with the stress on the
first. |
end rhymerhyme at the ends of lines of poetry |
end-stoppeda pause (period or comma) at the end of the
line. |
English/Shakespearean Sonneta fourteen-line poem of four stanzas, three
quatrains and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef
gg. |
enjambedno pause at the end of the line. |
epic simileArray |
eye-rhymeArray |
feminine rhymeArray |
figures of speechspecial poetic ways of expressing things,
especially comparisons that are not literally true. |
footthe repeating unit of meter. |
Haikua form of poetry developed in Japan; in
English we use three lines, with syllable counts of 5-7-5 or
3-5-3. |
Heroic coupletsrhymed couplets of iambic pentameter |
hexametera six-foot line. |
iamba two-syllable foot with the stress on the
second syllable. The English language is naturally iambic, and
Shakespeare used iambs for the speeches of good and noble
figures. |
iambic pentameterfive iambs to a line of ten syllables.
Sonnets, rime royal, and heroic couplets all use iambic
pentameter. |
internal rhymerhymes inside the lines, or a word inside a
line that rhymes with a word at the end of a line |
Italian/Petrarchan Sonneta fourteen-line poem of an octave and a
sestet. Abba abba cde cde |
limericka five-line nonsense poem, mostly in anapest,
rhyme scheme aabba. Lines one, two, and five have three feet, but
lines three and four have only two feet. |
masculine rhymeArray |
meterthe pattern of rhythm of syllables. |
near rhymeArray |
onomatopoeiaWords whose sound imitates their suggested meaning, (e.g., buzz, boom, hiss, and clang). |
pentametera five-foot line. |
pyrrhic foota two-syllable foot, both syllables
unstressed. |
quatraina four-line stanza |
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rhymeArray |