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18 Cards in this Set
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Ballad |
2+ stanzas with the same melody; song-like |
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Blank Verse |
10 syllables in each line; no rhyme |
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Elegy |
Honor a loved one that died |
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Epic |
Long, serious peom about a hero |
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Free Verse |
No rhyme scheme; freely written |
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Idyll |
Short poem about rural life; landscape depicted |
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Lyric |
Musical rhythm, typically in first-person |
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Ode |
Short and has rhyme scheme; praise people, thing or animal |
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Pastoral |
Poem dealing with shepherd and rural life; simplicity of life in the country |
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Petrarchan Sonnet |
Octave with rhyme scheme ABBAABBA and sestet with CDECDE or CDCDCD |
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Sonnet |
14 lines, typically ten syllables per line |
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Villanelle |
19-lines; 2 rhymes throughout; 5 tercets, 1 quatrain |
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Couplet |
Two set of lines that usually rhyme. |
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Tercet |
Three lines that may or may not rhyme. |
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Quatrain |
Four lines that may or may not rhyme. |
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Cinquian |
Five lines that may or may not rhyme. |
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Sestet |
Last six lines of a sonnet, followed by an octave. |
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Octave |
Eight lines that may or may not rhyme. |
