1. Sonnets
William Shakespeare

2. How would you spell out your heartbeat?

4. Meter Meter: the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
Iambic pentameter: consists of five iambs – five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables
Couplet: two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

5. Rhyme
Rhyme scheme: the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
Exact rhyme: a rhyme in which the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to that of another
Ex: cat; hat
Slant rhyme:  words that come near rhyming, but do not really rhyme
Ex: orange; door hinge
End rhyme: rhymes that come at the end of a line of poetry
Internal rhyme: rhymes that come in the middle of a line of poetry

6. Structure
Stanza: a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
Blank verse: a verse of iambic pentameter that does not rhyme
Free verse: poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
Quatrain: a group of four lines

7. Shakespearean Sonnet One stanza Iambic pentameter
3 quatrains and a couplet (therefore- a Shakespearean sonnet is 14 lines)
Rhyming couplet at the end