Poetic Terms Set 2

Front 1

ballad

Back 1

Light do I see within my Lady’s eyes
And loving spirits in its plenisphere
Which bear in strange delight on my heart’s care
Till Joy’s awakened from that sepulchre.

Front 2

complication

Back 2

When drafted, he argued that standard time, not DST, was the official time for recording births in his state of Delaware in the year of his birth.

Front 3

connotation

Back 3

the color red which originated with the neolithic hunter peoples and continued with the ancient Germans starts to change around 1500

Front 4

couplet

Back 4

It’s full of love’s unending song.
The night is short, though it seems long.

Front 5

denotation

Back 5

And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

Front 6

denouement

Back 6

One sits on a fence post,
another atop a telephone pole that sways
as it throws its big-breasted body around.
They scattered to these perches when I opened
the door, knowing the squeak
would pry
them from the neighbor's cat,
stiff on the road, one eye bulging.

Front 7

elegy

Back 7

There the Swahili
open his doors, let loose thru the trees
the tides of Death’s sound and distil
from their leaves the terrible red.

Front 8

epigram

Back 8

I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.

Front 9

foil

Back 9

in Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras

Front 10

foot

Back 10

an iamb has 2 of these

Front 11

hyperbole

Back 11

"Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world"

Front 12

lyric poem

Back 12

I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

Front 13

narrative

Back 13

When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.

Front 14

octave

Back 14

How do you know you cannot fly higher
Until you take that first step into space?
The Eagle started as an egg,
That became a blind chick,
And now she looks from her lofty perch,
Regally on humanity below,
Remembering that breathless moment
When she took that first leap.

Front 15

ode

Back 15

----- To Cheese,
which Makes Us Smile,
When Camera's go Clack.

Front 16

onomatopoeia

Back 16

Boom!
Went the food
trays.
Clap! Clap!
Goes the teacher.
Rip!
Went the
plastic bag.

Front 17

personification

Back 17

"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.

Front 18

pyrrhic

Back 18

Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps and the nerves prick
And tingle; and the heart is sick,
And all the wheels of Being slow

Front 19

sonnet

Back 19

What guile is this, that those her golden tresses
She doth attire under a net of gold;
And with sly skill so cunningly them dresses,
That which is gold or hair, may scarce be told?
Is it that men’s frail eyes, which gaze too bold,
She may entangle in that golden snare;
And being caught may craftily enfold
Their weaker hearts, which are not yet well aware?
Take heed therefore, mine eyes, how ye do stare
Henceforth too rashly on that guileful net,
In which if ever ye entrapped are,
Out of her bands ye by no means shall get.
Folly it were for any being free,
To covet fetters, though they golden be.

Front 20

stanza

Back 20

--------consists of two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem.