| A | B |
|---|
| narrative poetry | a poem that tells a story |
| lyric poetry | poetry that is ment to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre |
| haiku | an unrhymed japanese poem, usually consisting of seventeen (17) japanese symbol sounds |
| sonnet | a verse form containing fourteen lines (14), in English usually iambic pentameter and a complicated rhyme scheme |
| rhyme scheme | the arrangement of rhymes in a unit of verse |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| free verse | lacks regular meter and line length. natural rhythms of the language |
| rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, the arrangement of words in the poem |
| prose | literary expression not marked by rhyme or by metrical regularity |
| dramatic poetry | poetry that can be acted |
