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12 Cards in this Set
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A long lyric poem, usually leasing some subject, and written in dignified language |
Ode |
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Poem that does not tell a story but expresses personal feelings of a speaker |
Lyric Poem |
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Song like poem that tells a story, often a sad story of betrayal, death, or loss |
Ballad |
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A fourteen line lyric poem that filled strict rules of structure, meter, and rhyme |
Sonnet |
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Poem of mourning |
Elegy |
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Does not follow a regular rhyme scheme or meter |
Free verse |
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Tells a story |
Narrative |
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Long narrative poem about the many deeds of a great hero |
Epic |
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3 line poem, with 5-7-5 syllable pattern, usually written about nature |
Haiku |
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Nonsense poem, 5 lines long, with an A-A-B-B-A rhyme pattern |
Limerick |
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5 line poem with a triangular shape; takes one subject and describes it |
Cinquain |
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2 lines that rhyme |
Couplet |
