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21 Cards in this Set
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Blank Verse |
Un-rhymed iambic pentameters (close to speech) |
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Couplet |
2 lines of verse usually rhyming |
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Tercet |
Stanza of 3 lines linked by single rhyme |
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-Terza Rima |
2nd line of each tercet rhymes with 1st and 3rd of next (final line fills in missing rhyme) |
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Quatrain (common meter) |
4 line stanza |
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-Ballad stanza |
Lines of iambic tetrameter alternate with trimester abcb / abab |
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-Long meter |
expansion of lines 2 and 4 to tetrameters |
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-Short meter |
1st line shortened to trimeter (matching lines 2 and 4) |
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-Heroic quatrains |
stanzas of iambic pentameter abab |
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Rhyme Royal |
7 line iambic pentameter stanza ababbcc |
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Ottava Rima |
8 line stanza abababcc open with quatrain, close with couplet |
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Spenserian Stanza |
9 lines - first 8 iambic pentameter, last iambic hexameter abab bcbc cdcd ee open with quatrain, close with couplet |
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Sonnet |
14 iambic pentameters |
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-Italian / Petrarchan Sonnet |
octave + sestet Statement +counter argument abba abba cde cde |
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-English / Shakespearean Sonnet |
3 quatrains volta at line 12 concluding couplet (often summary) abab cdcd efef gg |
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Villanelle |
5 tercets aba followed by quatrain abaa First line of tercet recurs as last line of 2nd and 4th tercets 3rd line of tercet recurs as last line of 3rd and 5th tercets both lines couplet at end |
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Sestina |
2 stanzas, 6 lines each followed by envoy (concluding stanza) incorporating lines/words used before ending each line in different pattern) |
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Canzone |
five 12 line stanzas 5 line envoy all using same 5 end words |
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Pantoum |
lines 2 + 4 repeated as lines 1+3 in next quatrain abab / bcbc generally ends with quatrain whose repetons are lines 1+3 of 1st stanza in reverse order |
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Limerick |
5 line stanza aabba 1st+5th line usually end with same word |
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Clerihew |
2 rhymed couplets unequal line length comic nonsensical poem about a famous person |
