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Poetry Terms (3)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Haiku | A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. |
| Lamb | a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. |
| Internal rhyme | A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. |
| Limerick | A humorous, frequently bawdy verse of three long lines and two short lines rhyming aa bb a |
| Line | A basic structural component of a poem. |