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28 Cards in this Set
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Scansion
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the analysis of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of a poem
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Metrical foot
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a unit of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables
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Caesura
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a pause in the middle of a line, usually at a period, semicolon, or comma:
Ă wómăn’s géntlĕ héart, bŭt nót ăcquáintĕd |
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Iamb (iambic foot)
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U /
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Trochee (trochaic foot)
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/ U
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Monometer
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one foot per line
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Dimeter
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two feet per line
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Trimeter
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three feet per line
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Tetrameter
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four feet per line
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Pentameter
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five feet per line
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Hexameter
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six feet per line
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Couplet
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a pair of rhymed lines:
Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number-- |
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Heroic Couplet
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a couplet in iambic pentameter:
We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go |
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Tercet
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a three-line unit or stanza
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Sestet
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a six-line unit or stanza
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Quatrain
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a four-line unit or stanza
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Octave
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an eight-line unit or stanza
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Enjambment
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The continuation of a grammatical clause from one line of verse to the next:
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are— |
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End-stopped lines
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Lines of verse that end with a period, semicolon or comma:
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapors weep their burthen to the ground, Man come and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan. |
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End rhyme
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The Lotos blooms below the barren peak,
The Lotos blows by every winding creek |
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Internal rhyme
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The splendor falls on castle walls
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Masculine rhyme
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The stress is on the final syllables of the rhymed words (attend/friend, wine/divine)
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Feminine rhyme
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The stress is on the penultimate syllable of the rhymed words (mountain/fountain, descending/blending)
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Slant rhyme or off rhyme
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Words with an auditory resemblance, but not an exact rhyme (charm/form, change/revenge)
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Eye rhyme
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that do not rhyme but look as though they should (song/among, here/were)
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Alliteration
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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (Like coarsest clothes against the cold)
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Consonance
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Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds (I met a traveller from an antique land)
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Assonance
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Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds (Many a green isle needs must be / In the deep wide sea of Misery)
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