Warm-Ups

Basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem; a specific number of syllables and emphasis to add to the poem's musicality; made up of "feet"

• Feet

• Meter

• Stanza

• Blank Verse

A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• Stanza

• Haiku

• Pastoral Poetry

• Feet

Division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme; connected thoughts; set by pace

• Villanelle

• Stanza

• Rhyme Scheme

• Ode

Pattern according to which end rhymes (rhymes located at the end of lines) are repeating in works poetry

• Rhyme Scheme

• Rhymed Verse

• Free Verse

• Sonnet

Unrhymed poetry but metered lines, almost always in iambic pentameter

• Rhymed Verse

• Free Verse

• Blank Verse

• Epic

The most common form of poetry; metered and rhymed lines

• Pastoral Poetry

• Blank Verse

• Rhymed Verse

• Elegy

Poetry without strict rhyme or meter

• Free Verse

• Ode

• Meter

• Limerick

A long, book-length narrative in verse form which retells the heroic journey of a single person of a group of persons

• Blank verse

• Narrative Poetry

• Sonnet

• Epic

Poetry which tells a story with Beginning, Middle, and End

• Narrative Poetry

• Pastoral Poetry

• Haiku

• Ballad

A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evolving images of the natural world

• Pastoral Sonnet

• Epic

• Haiku

• Sonnet