Literary Terms: Poetry Notes from Mr. Steven Van Zoost.

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Literary Terms: Poetry Notes from Mr. Steven Van Zoost

Poetry Meter (Iambic Pentameter) Rhythm Rhyme Stanza (octave,quatrain,couplet,sestet) Heroic Couplet Blank Verse Free Verse Epic Lyric Ode Elegy Ballad Sonnet (English / Italian) Dramatic monologue Narrative poetry Poetic license

Meter - regularized rhythm of accents that occur at apparently equal intervals in time. The number of feet (two syllables) in a line describes the meter. Iambic pentameter – a five foot line where every second syllable is stressed. When I have fears that I may cease to be

Rhythm - any wave like recurrence of motion or sound.

Rhyme scheme – any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas.

Stanza – a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem. octave – 8 lines sestet – 6 lines quatrain – 4 lines

Heroic Couplet – two successive lines written in iambic pentameter with an end rhyme

Blank Verse – unrhymed iambic pentameter Free Verse – poetry written without any fixed metrical pattern

Lyric – a brief subjective poem written with imagination, melody, and emotion, and creating a single, unified impression (eg. A sonnet, ode, elegy, or ballad)

Ode – a long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure. Elegy – a sustained formal poem setting forth the poet’s meditations on death or another solemn theme Ballad – a fairly short narrative poem written in a song-like stanza form

Sonnet Italian Sonnet - a fourteen lined poem with an octave and a sestet written in iambic pentameter with a rhyming scheme of: abba abba cde cde English Sonnet – a fourteen lined poem with three quatrains and a heroic couplet written in iambic pentameter with a rhyming scheme of: abab cdcd efef gg (note that the English sonnet concludes with an heroic couplet)