Poetry Terms 24-25

The distance between the left and right edges of a line in poetry

• line length

• white space

• indentation

• line break

when one stanza ends and another begins

• line break

• stanza break

• indentation

• white space

the end of one line of poetry, and the beginning of a new line

• line length

• white space

• line break

• stanza break

blankness or emptiness to visually create an aesthetic; creates lack of sound or changes the sound

• white space

• line break

• blank page

• stanza break

when a poet moves the text away from the left-hand margin to complicate traditional line breaks

• line length

• indentation

• line break

• stanza break

the pattern of rhyming lines;

named using the letters of the alphabet (for example, AABBAABB)

• slant rhyme

• internal rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• end rhyme

the rhyming of the final words of lines in a poem;

words with the same ending sounds

• rhyme scheme

• slant rhyme

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

the rhyming of two words within the same line of poetry

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• slant rhyme

• rhyme scheme

words that sound alike or similar but not exactly the same

• rhyme scheme

• end rhyme

• slant rhyme

• internal rhyme

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables creates the rhythm of lines of poetry

• onomatopoeia

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• alliteration