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Poetic Form

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A Pair of rhymed lines of the same length and meter Couplet
Includes stanza, blank verse, and free verse poetic form
called because of their use in epics and heroic plays heroic couplets
pair of lines in which the end of the rhyme coincides with the end of the sentence closed couplet
are fluent with rhyme not insistent but subtly underlying the meter. open couplet
group of 3 lines, usually sharing the same rhyme tercet
consist of four lines quatrain
alternating iambic pentameter and iambic trimeter typically with second and fourth lines ballad meter
ballad meter typical in hymns common meter
a word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a poem refrain
a lyric poem, usually consist of 14 lines of iambic pentameter sonnet
named after Petrach Petrarchan
has 3 quatrains and a final couplet, which rhyme abab, cdcd, efef, gg Shakespearean Sonnet
series of poems on the same topic sonnet sequence
10.5 line form curtal sonnet
unrhymed iambic pentameter blank verse
rhymes are not organized into the regularity of the meter free verse
poet must devise different means for creating coerce and emphasis closed form
Created by: Sjocelin
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