poetry vocab list #1

the wavelike recurrence of motion or sound; the rise and fall of language created through altercation of accented and unaccented syllables.

repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important or importantly positioned words. fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing stanzas or whole poems.

a natural pause of break in the middle of a line of poetry

running a phrase or line over the end of one line and into the next

the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry

the shorter final and concluding stanza of a poem used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem (like a postscript)

poetry that has no fixed meter or rhyme scheme

the rhythmical pattern of a poem in syllables

formed in the imitation of their natural sounds; the effect of words imitating their sounds

short, narrative poem with a song lik stanza form; includes refrains, defined rhythm, rhyme scheme, and repetition.