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show Accentual meter  
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show Anapest  
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show Ballad  
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The most common and well0known meter of unrhymed poetry. Contains five iambic feet per line and is never rhymed   show
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show Conceit  
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show Couplet  
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Word choice or vocabular. Refers to the class of words that an author decides is appropriate to use in a particular work   show
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show Dimeter  
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show Dactyl  
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A long narrative poem usually composed in an elevated style tracing the adventures of a legendary or mythic hero. Usually written in a consistent form and meter throughout   show
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The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical breat   show
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A very short poem, often comic, usually ending with some sharp turn of wit or meaning   show
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A full rhyme in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound, as in follow and hollow, go and slow, disband and this hand   show
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show End rhyme  
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Has a rhyme scheme organized into three quatrains with a final couplet. The poem may turn or shift in mood or tone, between any of the quatrains   show
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show Foot  
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show Form  
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Describes poetry that organizes its lines without meter. It may be rhymed but it usually is not   show
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A verse meter consisting of six metrical feet, or six primary stresses, per line   show
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show Heptameter  
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A Japanese verse form that has three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Often serious and spiritual in tone, relying on imagery, and usually set in one of the four seasons   show
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The collective set of images in a poem or other literary work   show
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Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetr, as opposed to end rhyme   show
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show Iambic  
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A sonnet with the following rhyme pattern for the first eight line, abba, abba; the final six lines may follow any pattern of rhymes, as long as it does not end in a couplet   show
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A short and usually comic verse form of five anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba. The first, second, and fifth lines traditionally have three stressed syllables each; the third and fourth have two stresses each   show
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show Lyric  
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show Monometer  
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show Meter  
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An extended speech by a single character.   show
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A poem that tells a story. ONe of the four traditional modes pof poetry, along with lyric, dramatic, and didactic; Ballads and epics are two common forms   show
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A verse meter consisting of eight metrical feet, or eight primary stresses per line   show
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show Ode  
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A stanza of eight lines   show
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A verse meter consisting of five metrical feet, or five primary stresses, per line   show
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A stanza consisting of four lines   show
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Any recurrent pattern of rhyme within an individual poem or fixed form.   show
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show Sestina  
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A traditional and widely used verse form, especially popular for love poetry. Is a fixed form of 14 lines, traditionally written in iambic pentameter, usually made up of an octave and concluding sestet   show
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A rhyme in which the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different, as in letter and litter, bone and bean   show
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show Scansion  
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A verse form in which the poet establishes a pattern of a certain number of syllables to a line.   show
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show Stanza  
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A poem or stanza of six lines.   show
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An emphasis or accent placed on a syllable in speech   show
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show Symbol  
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show Trimeter  
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A verse meter consisting of four metrical feet, or four primary stresses, per line   show
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show Trolet  
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A metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable as in the words summer and chorus   show
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A group of three lines of verse, usually all ending in the same rhyme   show
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A fixed form developed by French courtly poets of the Middle Ages in imitation of Italian fold song. Consists of six rhymed stanzas in which two lines are repeated in a prescribed pattern   show
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Refers to any single line of poetry; refers to any composition in lines of more or less regular rhythm   show
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