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pastoral:

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a work describing and idealizing the simple life of country folk, usually shepherds who live a painless life in a world full of beauty, music, and love. An example is Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love."

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ballad:

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this kind of stanza consists of four lines of which the first and third lines are iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines are iambic trimeter, with the second and fourth rhyming.

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stanza:

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a group of verse lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem.

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tag:

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words used repeatedly throughout the poem to describe something

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paradox:

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a seemingly contradictory statement or idea, in order to highlight a deeper truth.

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personification:

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a figure of speech that endows something nonhuman, such as an abstraction, with humanlike qualities, as in "Death entered the room."

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villanelle:

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a verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas—five tercets (three-line stanzas) and one quatrain (four-line stanza). The first and third lines of the first tercet rhyme with each other, and this rhyme is repeated through each of the next four tercets and in the last two lines of the concluding quatrain. An example is Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."

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alliteration:

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repetition of usually initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words.

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sestina:

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an elaborate verse structure in blank verse that consists of six stanzas of six lines each followed by a three-line stanza. The final words of each line in the first stanza appear in variable order in the next five stanzas and are repeated in the middle and at the end of the three lines in the final stanza.

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sonnet:

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a poem of 14 lines, in iambic pentameter.

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satire:

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a poem in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule.

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trochaic meter

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/ u (stressed, unstressed)

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pantoum:

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a Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets and imitated in English. It comprises a series of quatrains, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the next. The second and fourth lines of the final stanza repeat the first and third lines of the first stanza.

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epic:

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a long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero.

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heroic couplet:

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a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, often used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as Alexander Pope.

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end-stopped line:

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A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation.

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ode:

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a lyric poem expressing a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something.

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spondaic meter

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two consecutive syllables that are stressed almost equally

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imagery:

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language that evokes any of the five senses.

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discursive poem:

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a poem structured like a treatise, argument, or essay.

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narrative poem:

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relays a story and contains a plot and conflict; may include multiple characters and dialogue.

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juxtaposition:

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two things placed close together for contrasting effect.

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aubade:

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a poem in which the coming of dawn is either celebrated, as in Billy Collins's "Morning," or denounced as a nuisance, as in John Donne's "The Sun Rising."

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euphony:

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harmonious and pleasing to the ear (opposite: cacophony)

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elegy:

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a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead, dirge-song for the dead, same as requiem.

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limerick:

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humorous five-line poem.

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assonance:

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repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings—for example, "black cat"

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caesura:

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a pause introduced into the reading of a line by a mark of punctuation.

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consonance:

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shared consonants between two proximate words. (e.g. pitter patter)

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enjambment:

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the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break.

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blank verse:

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one of Shakespeare's favorite forms, iambic pentameter without rhyme.

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anaphora:

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repetition of words or phrases to create a powerful and poetic effect.

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doggerel:

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crude verse, a drinking song.

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lyric poem:

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subjective poem marked by imagination and emotion; often composed in 1st-person point of view, expressing thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.

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free verse (the open form):

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non-metrical verse. Poetry written this way is arranged in lines, and may be more or less rhythmical, but has no fixed metrical pattern.

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iambic meter

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u / (unstressed, stressed)

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refrain:

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a phrase or line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza.

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dactylic meter

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/ u u (stressed, unstressed, unstressed)

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anapestic meter

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u u / (unstressed, unstressed, stressed)

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dramatic monologue:

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also known as a persona poem. An audience is implied; there is no dialogue; and the poet speaks through an assumed voice—a character, a fictional identity, or a persona.

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couplet:

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two lines of the same meter and length, usually rhyming.

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onomatopoeia:

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a word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes; buzz is a good example.

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conceit, also metaphysical conceit:

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From the Latin term for "concept," this is an often unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor.

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