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54 Cards in this Set
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Sonnet #20
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Shakespeare
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Nuns fret not at their convents narrow room
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William wordsworth
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Remember
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Christina Rossetti
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Sonnet
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Edna st. vincent millay
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Sestina
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Elizabeth Bishop
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Do not go gentle into that good night
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Dylan Thomas
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My Papas Waltz
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Theodore Roethke
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Delight in Disorder
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Roberk Herrick
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l(a...)
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e e cummings
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The word Plum
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Helen Chasin
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Dover Beach
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Mathew Arnold
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My last Duchess
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Robert Browning
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Line name
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Monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter
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scansion
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analysis of stressed, unstressed syllables and metrical feet.
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line length
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number of stressed syllables or syllabic beats in a line of berse
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metrical feet
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partter stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
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catalectic line
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metrically incomplete line of verse, lacking syllable at the end
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Acephaletic line
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Line that lacks a beginning syllable
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phyrric
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uu
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Iamb
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u /
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trochee
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/ u
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spondee
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/ /
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end rhyme
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rhymes at the end
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masculine rhyme
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rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words (sublime, crime)
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Feminine rhyme
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Rhyme in which the stress is on the weak syllable
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internal
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rhymes at the centers of lines
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slant rhyme
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Near rhyme that has an auditory resemblance but no exact ryhme
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eye-rhyme
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words that look as though they rhyme, but don't (cough, touch)
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Alliteration
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repetition of conconant sounds at the beginning of words
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consonance
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repetition of identical/similar conconant sounds in words
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Assonance
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Repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds in words
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Caesura
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Pause/stop in the middle of a line or verse. either from period, semicolon, comma, or other punctuation.
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Enjambment
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Continuation of clauses through line breaks
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Refrain
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repeated lines
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Vilanelle
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5 three line stanzas, rhymed ABA, and ending with a four line stanza rhyming ABAA
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couplet
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pair of rhymed lines
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heroic couplet
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pair of rhymed lines in iambis pentameter
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tercet
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stanze with 3 lines
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quatrain
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stanze with 4 lines
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quintet
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stanza with 5 lines
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Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet
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ABBAABBACDDCEE
octave developes one thought then volta completes it |
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Shakespearean
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ABABCDCDEFEFGG
ending couplet includes clever turn |
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Spenserian Sonnet
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ABABBCBCCDCDEE
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Common/Hymn Meter
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Quatrains with ABAB
meter: iambic tetrameter iambic trimeter iambic tetrameter iambic trimeter |
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ballad meter
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quatrain with ABCB
iambic tetra iambic tetra iambic tetra iambic tri |
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blank verse
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unryhmed verse that still has regular meter
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free verse
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unrhymed verse with no regular meter
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sestina
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36 lines
6 stanzas 1 tercet elaborate scheme of repetition |
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concrete poetry
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creating shapes on the page with words
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elegy
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poem for the dead
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epic
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usually long narrative poem by a culture
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Dramatic monologue
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poem narrated by imaginary character
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imagism
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short, focused on specific images, written in free verse.
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end stop
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hard caesura marked with punctuation
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