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| Clerihew Poetry | humorous or light verse consisting of two rhyming couplets about a well-known person |
| Terse Verse | a form of humorous verse make up of two words that rhyme and have the same number of syllables |
| Ballad | a poem that tells a story and usually written in quatrains |
| Elegy | a poem that states a poet's sadness about the death of an important person |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed poetry with meter. Each line is 10 syllables in length. |
| Cinquain | a poem that is five lines in length |
| Haiku | a type of Japenese poetry that presents a picture of nature. Haikus are three lines and have a 5-7-5 syllable pattern |
| Limerick | A humorous verse of five lines. |
| Ode | a long lyric that is deep in feeling and rich in imagery |
| Lyric | a short poem that expresses personal feeling |
| Poetic Foot | One unit of meter |
| Quatrain | A four-line stanza |
| Stanza | A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains. |
| Couplet | two-line stanza |
| Triplet | three-line stanza |
| Septet | seven-line stanza |
| Octave | eight-line stanza |
| Monometer | one foot per line |
| Dimeter | two feet per line |
| Trimeter | three feet per line |
| Tetrameter | four feet per line |
| Pentameter | five feet per line |
| Hexameter | six feet per line |
| Heptameter | seven feet per line |
| Octometer | eight feet per line |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds |
| Consonance | the repetiton of consonant sounds anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning |
| Alliteration | repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning of words |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose sound makes you think of its meaning such as buzz |
