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English Poetry

by emaleigh00, May 2015

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	Couplet	Stanza with 2 lines
	Tercet	Stanza with 3 lines
	Quatrain	Stanza with 4 lines
	Cinquain	Stanza with 5 lines
	Sestet	Stanza with 6 lines
	Rime royal	Stanza with 7 lines
	Ottava rima	Stanza with 8 lines
	Spenserian stanza	Stanza with 9 lines
	Sonnet	Stanza with 14 lines
	Monometer	1ft meter
	Dimeter	2ft meter
	Trimeter	3ft meter
	Tetrameter	4ft meter
	Pentameter	5ft meter
	Hexameter	6ft meter
	Heptameter	7ft meter
	Octameter	8ft meter
	Lyric	Tell's the author's thoughts/feelings
	Narrative	Tells a story in long stanzas
	Ballad	Narrative poem meant to be sung, 4 lines, rhymes and has a chorus
	Haiku	Japanese poem that follows 575
	Limerick	Irish poem consisting of 5 lines, meant to be funny
	Sonnet	14 lines with particular rhyme, contrast of 2 different ideas, beliefs, emotions
	English sonnet	Like Shakespeare(a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g) meter is imbic pentameter
	Blank verse	Has meter but no rhyme
	Free verse	No meter or rhyme
	iamb	Unstressed, stressed (/x)
	Trachee	Stresses, unstressed (x/)
	Spondee	Metrical foot consisting of two equally stressed syllables (xx)
	Stanza	Several lines/verses together that follow the same pattern in rhyme, meter, or number of lines
	Verse	A line of poetry where a line is broken to move on to the next, is a meaningful decision
	Slant rhyme	When words are similar in sound but don't rhyme exactly
	True rhyme	When words rhyme exactly
	Enjabment	When the poet turns the line in an illogical place so the continous stream of thoughts is interrupted and the reader is propelled into the next line in order to the meaning or missing part