| A | B |
| refrain | sounds, words, phrases repeated throughout poem |
| assonance | repeated vowel sounds |
| consonance | repeated consonant sounds |
| alliteration | repeated consonant sounds at beginning of words |
| onompatopoeia | words that imitated sounds |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| near rhyme | imperfect rhyme few letters in common |
| internal rhyme | rhyme with words inside a line of poetry |
| end rhyme | end of two lines rhyme |
| blank verse | poem with iambic pentameter but no end rhyme |
| free verse | no rhyme or meter |
| meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| foot | unit of meter |
| iambic | unstressed stressed meter |
| rhythm | overall beat |