A poem mourning the dead.

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Deliberate omission of unstressed syllables, typically in order to maintain rhythm- e.g. "o'er" for "over".

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The lack of a pause between two lines of a poem.

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Verse that follows no particular form, meter or rhyme scheme.

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Seventeen syllable poems, generally split into three lines of five, seven and five syllables, often with a theme related to nature.

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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.

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A rhyme within the words of a line

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A dignified, lyric poem expressing praise or some other elevated notion.

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A four line stanza.

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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")

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A 14 line poem, of which there are various forms (Shakespearean, Spenserian etc.)

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A group of metrical lines or verses, usually no fewer than four, arranged in a certain pattern. A stanza is often called a "verse".

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a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself ex. crown = king

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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

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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.

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A brief, emotive poem written in first person; it emphasizes sound and pictorial imagery rather than narrative or dramatic movement

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Structure: 14 lines: an octave (a stanza of 8 lines) and a sestet (a stanza of 6 lines) Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdecde Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdecde Content: problem, situation or incident in octave; resolution in sestet

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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

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a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

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