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| Lyric Poetry | poems about a subject that contain little narrative or story. The subject may be the speaker's emotion, an idea, a description of a place, etc. |
| Narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story |
| dramatic poetry | A poem that is presented as a speech by a character or characters; this kind of poetry could appear in a play. |
| blank verse | 10 syllables appear per line in this kind of poetry; additionally, it does not rhyme (unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter) |
| enjambment | a line of poetry which runs on into a second line to complete the thought |
| end-stopped line | a complete thought line of poetry |
| free verse | poetry without a strict rhyme scheme or meter |
| caesura | a pause in the middle of a line of poetry |
| stanza | a group of lines of poetry which appear next to one another followed by a blank line. |
| in medias res | "in the middle of things"--a story that starts in the middle of the action, not at the beginning |
