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| lyric poem | a short highly musical tone that expresses feeling of one speaker |
| free verse | poetry with neither regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| narrative poem | a story told in a verse |
| ballad | a songlike narrative poem, usually feaaturing rhyme, rhythm and refrain |
| haiku | a 17-syllable, delicate, unrhymed Japanese verse |
| limerick | a 5-line, rhymed, rhythmic verse, usually funny |
| pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word |
| stanza | the paragraphs a poem is divided into |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines |
| quatrain | a stanza containing four lines |
| meter | a fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length to create rhythm |
| rhyme | reoccurring or similar final word sounds withing or at the ends of lines of verse |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme used in a poem, generally indicated by matching lowercase letters to show which lines rhyme |
| imagery | word pictures, using words to create "virtual reality" for the reader |
| rhythm | the pattern of beats and stresses in language |
| repetition | the repeating of patterns of something such as words and phrases |
