Types of Poetry and Rhyme

Ballad

• A poem mourning the dead.

• A narrative poem in short stanzas, especially one that tells

  a popular story.

• Verse that follows no particular form, meter or rhyme

  scheme.

• Seventeen syllable poems, generally split into three lines

  of five, seven and five syllables, often with a theme related

  to nature.

Elegy

• A poem mourning the dead.

• A rhyme within the words of a line

• A four line stanza.

• Seventeen syllable poems, generally split into three lines

  of five, seven and five syllables, often with a theme related

  to nature.

Half-Rhyme

(slant rhyme)

• A 14 line poem, of which there are various forms (Shake-

  spearean, Spenserian etc.)

• A group of metrical lines or verses, usually no fewer than

  four, arranged in a certain pattern. A stanza is often called

  a "verse".

• A rhyme where two words have similar consonant sounds

  but different vowel sounds e.g. "bell" and "bill". Also called

  a slant rhyme or imperfect rhyme.

Internal Rhyme

• A group of metrical lines or verses, usually no fewer than

  four, arranged in a certain pattern. A stanza is often called

  a "verse".

• The pattern of rhyming line endings in a poem - e.g. "abab"

  means each stanza has four lines, with lines one and three

  rhyming with each other ( rhyme "a") and also lines two

  and four rhyming with each other (rhyme "b")

• A dignified, lyric poem expressing praise or some other

  elevated notion.

• A rhyme within the words of a line

Ode

• A dignified, lyric poem expressing praise or some other

  elevated notion.

• A 14 line poem, of which there are various forms (Shake-

  spearean, Spenserian etc.)

• The way an author chooses to join words into phrases,

  clauses, and sentences. You may consider which ideas in

  a sentence come first and which come second.

Quatrain

• a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitu-

  tion of a term naming an object closely associated with the

  word in mind for the word itself ex. crown = king

• A four line stanza.

• changes the literal meaning, to make a meaning fresh or

  clearer, to express complexity, to capture a physical or

  sensory effect, or to extend meaning

Rhyme Scheme

• The pattern of rhyming line endings in a poem - e.g. "abab"

  means each stanza has four lines, with lines one and three

  rhyming with each other ( rhyme "a") and also lines two

  and four rhyming with each other (rhyme "b")

• A 14 line poem, of which there are various forms (Shake-

  spearean, Spenserian etc.)

• changes the literal meaning, to make a meaning fresh or

  clearer, to express complexity, to capture a physical or

  sensory effect, or to extend meaning

Sonnet

• A dignified, lyric poem expressing praise or some other

  elevated notion.

• A 14 line poem, of which there are various forms (Shake-

  spearean, Spenserian etc.)

Stanza

• A group of metrical lines or verses, usually no fewer than

  four, arranged in a certain pattern. A stanza is often called

  a "verse".

• Deliberate omission of unstressed syllables, typically in

  order to maintain rhythm- e.g. "o'er" for "over".

Metonymy

• Structure: 14 lines: 3 quatrains (a stanza of 4 lines; the

  most used stanzaic form in English poetry) ends with a

  rhyming couplet (a stanza of 2 lines) Rhyme scheme:

  abab cdcd efef gg Content: repetition-with-variation of a

  statement in each quatrain, Epigrammatic (amusing) turn

  at end of the final couplet

• changes the literal meaning, to make a meaning fresh or

  clearer, to express complexity, to capture a physical or

  sensory effect, or to extend meaning

• a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitu-

  tion of a term naming an object closely associated with the

  word in mind for the word itself ex. crown = king