Poetry Terms

A collection of words written to inspire ideas, imagination, or emotion

• meter

• poem

• stanza

the feeling the poet is trying to covey

• mood

• theme

• meter

a ______ is a single row of words in a poem

• stanza

• rhyme

• line

the beat, sound, and feel of a poem

• rhythm

• meter

• theme

____describes words that have the same ending sounds

• line

• rhyme

• mood

a group of lines in a poem

• meter

• mood

• stanza

the number and style of accented syllables in a line

• theme

• meter

• rhythm

a truth, lesson or message about life

• poem

• mood

• theme