Poetry Verse Terms

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

a dramatic literary device that gives the audience a glimpse into the character's thoughts

the repetition of a vowel sound or dipthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

a verse without rhyme, especially that which uses imabic pentameter

a break between words within a metrical foot

a phrase that is common in everyday, unconstrained conversation, rather than in formal speech or academic writing.

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

a poetic unit of three lines, rhymed or unrhymed

a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes

the last six lines of a sonnet

an eight-line stanza

the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests

a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.

A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break, such as a dash or closing parenthesis, or with punctuation such as a colon, or a semicolon, or a period

the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

the overarching structure or pattern of the poem

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

A type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person

the pattern of beats in a line of poetry

how word choice, subject matter, and the author's tone convey an overall feeling that characterizes the emotional landscape of a poem.

a form of poetry that tells a story

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

a literary device based on repetition

figuratively describing an object with human traits in order to craft a vivid image of that object

a word, line or phrase that repeated within the lines or stanzas of the poem itself

the use of the same word or phrase multiple times

the use of similar sounding words in the lines of a verse

a rhyme involving a word in the middle of the line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of a verse

two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sound in common

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

an audible pattern in verse established by the intervals between stressed syllables

a monologue in which a character in a play expresses thoughts and feeling being alone on stage

a fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme

comprised of three quatrains and concluding couplet

a sonnet composed of a group of eight lines, and a group of six lines with two or three lines variously arranged

a sonnet in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet

the voice of the poem

a group of lines in a poem, usually set off from the others by a blank line or indentation

the poem's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader

a verse formed of iambic tercets