Poetry vocab terms

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Repetition of similar sounds, usually at line ends

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Rhyme

Front

Beat created by stressed and unstressed syllables in language

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Rhythm

Front

Rhyme at the end of lines

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End Rhyme

Front

Rhyme within a single line of poetry

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Internal Rhyme

Front

Group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines

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Stanza

Front

Sequence of end sounds in lines, labeled a, b, etc. Lines that rhyme with each other.

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Rhyme Scheme

Front

Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

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Meter

Front

Stanza or line repeated in a poem

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Refrain

Front

Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes

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Couplet

Front

A poem with 14 lines, 10-12 syllables per line; first 8 lines develop one idea, last 6 question it.

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Sonnet