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| Scansion | the process of analyzing a poems accents and rhythms;analysis of the kind and number of metrical feet in a poem |
| Metric feet | measured: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables |
| Meter | The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Enjambment | term used to describe a line of poetry which is not end-stopped, in which the sentence continues into the next line without any pause or punctuation mark |
| Couplet | A couplet is a pair of lines of verse that form a unit. Most couplets rhyme aa, but this is not a requirement. |
| Quatrain | Usually a stanza or poem of four lines. However, a quatrain may also be any group of four lines. Unified by a rhyme scheme. Quatrains usually follow an abab, abba, or abcb rhyme scheme. |
| Stanza | In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. The term means "room" in Italian. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words, as in "rough and ready." |
| Consonance | The repetition of a consonant sound. Cracker Jack is the example of consonance in advertising. |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of nearby words. “The monster spoke in a low mellow tone” has assonance in its repetition of the “o” sound |
| Iambic Pentameter | poetry consisting of five parts per line, each part having one short or unstressed syllable and one long or stressed syllable |
| Haiku | A 17 syllable form of Japanese poetry that consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables |
| Cinquain | a five-line stanza with successive lines containing two, four, six, eight and two syllables; can be a word or syllable pattern |
| Limerick | A five line poem. The first, second, and fifth lines rhyme (aaa - above) and so do the third and fourth (bb - above). The first, third, and fifth have the same verbal rhythm (meter) and length, and so do the second and fourth. |
| Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter (in lines of ten syllables with a stress on every other syllable). Sonnets vary in structure and rhyme scheme, but are generally of two types: the Petrarchan, or Italian, sonnet and the Shakespearean, or English sonnet. Sonnets usually attempt to express a singles theme or idea. |
| Lyric Poem | A short poem of songlike quality |
