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Words used to describe basic elements of poetry

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poem   writing that is imaginative and condensed by using words chosen for their sounding and meaning with phrases that may have a certain pattern made with rhythm and rhyme  
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limerick   a humorous poem that is 5 lines long usually the 1st, 2nd and last lines have the same rhyme the 3rd and 4th lines rhyme with each other  
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rhyme   words at the end of a line of a poem that sound alike  
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rhythm   a pattern created with long and short and weak and strong sounds  
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meter   a rhythmic pattern in a poem  
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verse   a line of a poem or a group of lines within a long poem  
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couplet   two lines of a poem together with the same rhyme and rhythm at the end  
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stanza   a part of a poem with similar rhythm and rhyme that will repeat later in the poem  
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sonnet   a 14 line poem that you being with 8 lines and is followed with 6 lines  
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poet   a writer of poems - you  
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