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| line | in poetry, the equivalent of a prose sentence |
| feet | units of loud and soft syllables within a line |
| meter | measures of feet in a line |
| lamb | one of the major poetic fee, with a light then heavy sound |
| scanned | when poem is studied and described in reference to feet |
| pentameter | five feet per line |
| stanza | poetic equivalent of a prose paragraph |
| rhyme | systematic use of words with identical or closely related or similar terminating sounds, usually at the end of a line |
| internal rhyme | rhymes within lines |
| assonance | duplication of vowels sounds within words near each other |
| alliteration | duplication of consonant sounds within words near each other |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| couplet | two rhyming lines |
| tercet or triplet | a three line stanza, usually rhyming at the end |
| villanelle | nineteen-line form, consisting of 6 tercets and concluded by 4 lines |
| quatrain | four-line stanza |
| sonnet | poem of fourteen lines |
| song or lyric | poem originally designed to be sung |
| open-form poetry | free verse, eliminates the restrictions of closed form poetry |
| visual poetry | fashions the poem into an actual recognizable shape |
| concrete poetry | represents a fusion of writing with painting and graphic design, developed after World War II |
