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Poetry Structure Dev

Poetry Structure Device terms for CN English

TermDefinition
Couplet Two lines of poetry
Triplet Three lines of poetry
Quatrain Four lines of poetry
Sestet six lines of poetry (Wordsworth and Milton)
Rhyme Royal seven lines of poetry (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Spenserian Sonnet 14 lines of Interlocking quatrains and a couplet ie abab bcbc cdcd ee (Edmund Spenser)
Elizabethan Sonnet 14 lines of poetry consisting of three quatrains and a couplet (Bill Shakespeare)
Villanelle 19 lines of poetry (Dylan Thomas)
Trochee Meter where the first syllable is stressed and the second is unstressed. / - Tell me / not in / mournful / numbers
Spondee Meter in poetry where a stressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. // Westward sunshine
Dactyl Meter in poetry where the first syllable is stressed and the second and third are unstressed. / - - INto the VALley of DEATH.
Anapest Meter in poetry where the first two syllables are unstressed and the third is stressed. - - / I am MONarch of ALL I surVEY.
Monometer a line of one foot
Dimeter a line of two feet
Trimeter a line of three feet
Tetrameter a line of four feet
Pentameter a line of five feet
Hexameter a line of six feet
Heptameter a line of seven feet
Octameter a line of eight feet
Italian Sonnet 14 lines of poetry consisting of an octave and a sestet (Petrarch)
Iamb The rhythm in a word or phrase where the first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed. - / That time / of year / thou mayst / in me / behold
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