College Poetry Terms

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Last updated: December 17, 2019
Accentual/ Syllabic
counts the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza

A special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound is at the stressed syllable

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metrical foot in a line of poem that contains 3 syllables ( unstressed/unstressed/stressed) pattern

Repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close to each other

Blank Verse
An iambic pentameter unrhymed

Rhythm established by phrases ” rhythm of phrasing”

A strong pause within a line . Often found alongside enjambment.

Carpe Diem
poems that have the theme of living for today


Closed Form
An established pattern in one or more areas

Common Meter

pleasing sounding caused by the repetition of consonant sounds

A pair of successive rhyming line, usually of the same length.

metrical foot that consists of 3 syllables (stressed/stressed/unstressed) pattern

style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words

Dramatic monologue
A Poem in Which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader

End Rhyme
Rhymes appearing like these at the end of a line

End Stopped

Enjambed line
A line that continues to move to the next line without terminal punctuation.

Eye Rhyme
A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break- such as a dash or closing parenthesis- or with punctuation such as a colon, a semicolon, or a period. Considered end-stopped, too if it contains a complete phrase.

Feminine Rhyme
A rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (such as in motion, notion, or of 3 syllables)

Physical structure of the poem; length of the lines, their rhymes their system of rhymes and repetition.

Iambic Pentameter
A common meter in meter consisting of a unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and a accented syllable

Internal Rhyme

Two or more rhyming words that occur within the same line. 2. Two or more rhyming words will appear int he middle of two separate lines or sometime in more.

The way in which line breaks are inserted

Masculine Rhyme
Occurs when the rhyme is on the final syllable of the two rhyming words

A eight-line stanza or poem.

*First eight lines of an Italian/Petrachan sonnet

Open Form
does not have a established pattern to it. whether it be in line length, meter, rhyme, imagery, syntax, or stanzas

Perfect Rhyme
Correspondence of rhyming sounds is exact

Petrachan Sonnet
Divided 14 lines into two sections: An eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming scheme of ABBAABBA


Study of versification including meter rhyme

Two unstressed feet

4 Lined stanza (ABAC or ABCB) unbound or ballad quatrain

A phrase or line repeated at intervals witinin a poem, especially at the end of a stanza

Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of end rhyme in a stanza with each rhyme encoded by a letter of the alphabet from a onward.

The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line, Rhymed words conventionally share all sounds following the words last stressed syllable.

The analysis of the metrical patterns of a poem by organizing its lines into feet of stressed & unstressed syllables and showing the major pauses, if any

A six-line stanza, or the final six lines of 14-line Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet

A complex french verse form, usually unrhymed, consisting of six stanzas of six lines each & a three-line envoy.

Shakespearian Sonnet
14- lines into one stanza of three quatrains and a concluding couplet with a rhyme scheme of ABABCDEDEFEFGG

Slant Rhyme
Sound not a perfect rhyme (i.e. Jam & ran)

a metrical foot, or beat in a line of poetry, that consists of two stressed syllables.

Measures the line ( beat) of the poem

A grouping of lines separated from others in a poem.

Poetry whose meter is determined by the total number per line, rather than the number of stresses

A poetic unit of three lines, rhymed or rhymed.


A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable.


Turn (sonnet)
Change in direction of argument or narrative ( final lines in sonnets)

A French verse form consisting of 5-3-line stanzas and a final quatrain. The FIRST & THIRD lines of the stanza repeating alternately in the following stanza. * these two refrain lines form the final couplet






Figure of Speech

obvious and intentional exaggeration

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