Poetry Terms
- Alliteration – repetition of initial consonant sounds in words
- Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants
- Blank Verse – unrhymed form of poetry, each line consisting normally of tenevery other one rhyme syllables in which
- Concrete Poetry - A poem that visually resembles something found in the physical world.
- Consonance – repetition of consonant sounds, not limited to the first letters of wordsFree Verse – no regular meter or rhyme
- Couplet – pair of lines of verse of the same length that usually rhyme
- End Rhyme – rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry
- Foot – smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line Iambic – unstressed followed by stresses (re-PEAT)
Anapestic – two stressed followed by a stressed syllable (in-ter-RUPT)Anapestic – two stressed followed by a stressed syllable (in-ter-RUPT)
Trochaic – stressed followed by an unstressed (OLD-er)
Dactylic – stressed followed by two unstressed (O-pen-ly)
Spondaic – two stressed syllables (HEART-BREAK) - Free Verse – no regular meter or rhyme
- Haiku – for of Japanese poetry (usually about nature) that has three lines: 1st line = 5 syllables; 2nd line = 7 syllables; 3rd line = 5 syllables
- Internal Rhyme – rhyming words occur inside the same line of poetry
- Meter – patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
- Repetition – repeating of a word, phrase or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect
- Rhythm – regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry. Regular rhythm is called meter and can be measured in feet. Random rhythm is called freeverse.
- Stanza – division of poetry named for the number of lines it containstwo lines Couplet – Triplet – three lines
Quatrain – four lines
Quintet – five lines
Sestet – six lines - Verse – metric line of poetry named according to the kind and number of feet composing it
Monometer – one foot Dimeter – two feet
Trimeter – three feet
Tetrameter – four feet
Pentameter – five feet
Hexameter – six feet
Heptameter – seven feet
Octometer – eight feet