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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| commemorte | to honor or remember something. |
| contemplate | to think about something seriously for along time. |
| forlorn | lonely and miserable. |
| lyric poetry | poetry that has a song like quality and expresses the speaker's thoughts and feelings. |
| majestic | grand and impressive. |
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem. |
| sonnet | a 14-lines poem that expresses a single complete thought. |