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a 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.

a natural break or pause in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line, usually marked by punctuation.

dropping an unstressed syllable from the end of a trochaic or dactylic line.

a three-syllable foot with the stress on the first.

rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry

a pause (period or comma) at the end of the line.

a fourteen-line poem of four stanzas, three quatrains and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.

no pause at the end of the line.

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special poetic ways of expressing things, especially comparisons that are not literally true.

the repeating unit of meter.

a form of poetry developed in Japan; in English we use three lines, with syllable counts of 5-7-5 or 3-5-3.

rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter

a six-foot line.

a 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.

five iambs to a line of ten syllables. Sonnets, rime royal, and heroic couplets all use iambic pentameter.

rhymes inside the lines, or a word inside a line that rhymes with a word at the end of a line

a fourteen-line poem of an octave and a sestet. Abba abba cde cde

a 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.

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the pattern of rhythm of syllables.

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a five-foot line.

a two-syllable foot, both syllables unstressed.

a four-line stanza

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