Poetry vocabulary

a single row of words in a poem

• line

• poet

• rhythm

• rhyme

the number and style of accented syllables in a line; it is written in a repeated pattern

• theme

• stanza

• mood

• meter

describes words that have the same ending sounds

• rhythm

• mood

• rhyme

• stanza

a truth, lesson or message about life

• poet

• theme

• line

• stanza

is the beat, sound, and feel of a poem

• theme

• rhyme

• mood

• rhythm

the author of a poem

• poet

• theme

• mood

• line

a group of lines in a poem

• theme

• line

• stanza

• meter

the feeling a poet is trying to convey

• poet

• theme

• stanza

• mood