A type of sonnet that includes three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an accented, unaccented pattern.

This is another name for the Shakespearean sonnet.

A four line stanza.

A type of meter consisting of five sets of syllables in the pattern of unaccented, accented.

The last six lines in a sonnet that answer the question posed in the first eight lines.

A metrical foot consisting of two syllables in an unaccented, accented pattern.

A type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two.

Another name for a type of sonnet that consists of an octave and a sestet; a break in thought or a turn comes between the two.

A type of sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet, with an interlocking rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. They end a Shakespearean sonnet.

The first eight lines of a sonnet. It usually asks a question that is answered in the last six lines of the poem.

A series of two or three syllables in a specific pattern of accented and unaccented syllables.

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a poem its rhythm and rhyme.