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envelope

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Cards (33)

Section 1

(33 cards)

envelope

Front

abba

Back

Pentameter

Front

five feet

Back

Spondee

Front

/ / (strong- strong)

Back

Dactyl

Front

/ x x (strong - weak - weak)

Back

scheme

Front

artful variation of usual word order

Back

Hexameter

Front

six feet

Back

Heroic

Front

Couplet in iambic pentameter

Back

Pure Accentual

Front

meter determined by number of stressed syllables, regardless of total number of syllables

Back

Ottava Rima

Front

abababcc+ iambic pentameter

Back

alternating/cross

Front

abab

Back

Rhyme Royal

Front

ababbcc + iambic pentameter

Back

octameter

Front

eight feet

Back

Trimeter

Front

three feet

Back

Trochee

Front

/ x (strong- weak)

Back

ballad

Front

abcb

Back

Quintet

Front

five lines of poetry

Back

Couplet

Front

Two consecutive lines of poetry

Back

Pyrrhic

Front

x x (weak - weak)

Back

Tercet

Front

three lines of poetry

Back

Septet

Front

seven lines of poetry

Back

Anapest

Front

x x / (weak- weak - strong)

Back

heptameter

Front

seven feet

Back

Quatrain

Front

four lines of poetry

Back

Free

Front

non-metrical, non-rhyming lines that follow the natural rhythm of speech.

Back

Dimeter

Front

two feet

Back

Tetrameter

Front

four feet

Back

Sestet

Front

six lines of poetry

Back

Octet

Front

eight lines of poetry

Back

Accentual Syllabic

Front

meter determined by the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables, organized into feet. The total number of syllables is fixed.

Back

Monometer

Front

one foot

Back

iamb

Front

x / (weak - strong)

Back

Pure syllabic

Front

meter determined by the total number of syllables per line.

Back

terza rima

Front

A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc.

Back