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30 Cards in this Set
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Most popular fixed form of poetry; iambic pentameter; 14 lines; two basic forms
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Sonnet
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English/Shakespearean sonnet characteristic
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abab cdcd efef gg (three quatrains and a couplet)
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Italian/Petrarchan sonnet characteristics
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abbaabba cdecde rhyme scheme (and octave and a sestet);
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Six stanzas, five tercets, final quatrain; two refrains, first&last line of first stanza that alternate as the last line of the next four stanzas and form a final couplet in the quatrain (example: "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas)
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Villanelle
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relates an episode in a speaker's life through a conversational format that reveals the character of the speaker; Robert Browning was particularly good at this form
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dramatic monologue
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"Elegy in a Country Church Yard"
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a reflective look at what might have been
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stressed, unstressed, unstressed
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dactyl
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Formal lyric poem that addresses a subject of elevated stature
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Ode
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stressed, unstressed
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trochee
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two lines
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couplet
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one line
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a line
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a pattern of beats or accents that is figured out by counting the stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
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meter
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Simple; employs dialogue, repetition, minor characterization; quatrains; abcb rhyme; refrain; songlike; two lines iambic tetrameter alternating with two lines iambic trimeter; subject matter varies
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The ballad
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six lines
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sestet
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four lines
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quatrain
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Poetry that tells a story
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narrative poetry
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"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" and "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman
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tributes to Abraham Lincoln
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"Elegy for Jane" by Theodore Rothke
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a teacher's lament for his student
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Highly personal and emotional; can be simple or elevated; subjective and melodious; often reflective in tone
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Lyric poetry
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unstressed, stressed
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iamb
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five lines
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cinquain
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Basic building block of poetry; composed of a pattern of syllables
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foot
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seven lines
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septet
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stressed, stressed
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spondee
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Formal lyric poem written in honor of one who has died
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Elegy
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eight lines
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octave
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unstressed, unstressed, stressed
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anapest
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What is the analysis of a poem's sound/meter called?
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Scansion
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three lines
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tercet
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"In Memory of W.B. Yeats" by W.H. Auden
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a poet's homage to a great writer
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