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The pattern or shape of a poem
Stanza
A group of lines arranged together in a reoccuring pattern of metrical lengths and a sequence of rhymes
Rhyme Scheme
Putting letters at the end of lines. Ex: ABBA etc.
Scansion
How a poet demonstrates the meter of a poem using accents to show the stressed syllables. (stressed /, Unstressed ~)
Iamb
un, stressed (~/)
Anapest
Un, Un, Stressed (~~/)
Foot
The rhythmic unit within a line of a verse
One
Monometer
Two
Dimeter
Three
Trimeter
Four
Tetrameter
Lindsay Maxwell
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