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| Regular Rhythm ending in Rimes. Refers to ONE line of a poem. |
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| Any recurrent pattern or Rime; A - for first rime; B - for second, etc. |
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| refrain appears at the END of the stanza |
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| a short secular song for three or more boices arranged in counterpoint. Love and Pastoral themes. |
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| A recurring pattern in two or more lines; the paragraph in prose. |
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| Compressed, dramatic, and objective in narrative style; a song that tells a story. |
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| Anonymous narrative songs in ballad meter; created for oral perforrmance resulting in many versions. |
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| creations of oral folk culture in Francis J Child's book. |
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| Four lines rimed abcb in which the first and thir lines have four metrical feet |
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| a variation rimed abab, usually in hymns |
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| not meant for singing.Written by sophistocated poet for educated readers. |
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| folk music about pain or loss. 3 line stanzas in which two identical lines are followed by a third concluding riming line. |
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| 80's lyrics are spoken or chanted over a steady heavy metrical beat. |
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| A repeated word, line or phrase done in intervals. |
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| The sound of words working together with meaning pleases mind and ear. (think Euphoria) |
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| A harsh, discordant effect. (opposite of euphoria) |
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| attemt to represent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it: Whiz crazh, bang, pitter-patter. |
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| A succession of similar Consonant sounds in a LINE of poetry |
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| at the beginning of words: "cool cats" (aka Hidden Alliteration) |
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| Internally on stressed syllables: the T's: "I meT a Traveler from an anTique land". |
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| Slant rime, (aka: Consonance, Near rime, Off Rime, Imperfect Rime) |
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| Similar Consonants different vowels: Reason and Raisin; Mink and Monk; sometimes only end sounds are the same:Fame and Room (aka Slant Rime) |
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| Similar Consonants different vowels: Reason and Raisin; Mink and Monk; sometimes only end sounds are the same:Fame and Room (aka Slant Rime) |
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| occurs at the end of lines |
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| One syllable words (Fox and Socks), and polysyllabic words at the end of words (conTRIVE and surVIVE) |
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| rime two or more syllables with stress on other than the last syllable: TURtle and FERtile |
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| spellings look alike but pronunciations differ: Rough and Dough; Idea and Flea |
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| in the last few decades, poets skillfully using rime again. |
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| Repetition of two or more Vowel Sounds in succussive words: Initial ("All the AWful AUguries"); Internal ("whIte lIlacs") |
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| occurs in the middle of a line of poetry |
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| Two or more words that contain identical sounding Vowel Sounds (Woo and Stew) |
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| A greater amount of force given to one syllable in speaking. |
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| a light but definate pause in a line usually in the middle of a line. |
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| does not end in punctuation, read only with a slight pause that carries on to the next line. |
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| The study of metrical structures in poetry. |
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| Used to describe rhythmic patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents and indicating the cesuras. SCAN a line or poem by indicating the stresses in it to see what the poet is doing. |
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| Rhythmic pattern of stresses in verse. A Fixed Rhythm. |
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| Basic unit of measurement in metrical poetry. A unit of two or three syllables that contains one strong stress. |
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| A line made up primarily of IAMBS, a metrical foot in which there is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. |
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| a line made up of anapests: A metrical foot, in which TWO unstressed syllables are followed by a stressed syllable. |
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| a line made up primarily of trochees:A metrical foot, in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable. |
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| a line made up primarily of dactyls: A metrical foot, in which one stressed syllable is followed by TWO unstessed syllables. |
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| (Iambic and Anapestic) movement rises from unstressed syllables to stress. |
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| (Dactylic and Trochaic) Movement from Stressed to unstressed syllables. |
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| While in general terms a foot comprises one accented syllable and one or two unaccented ones, it is possible to have just the accented one on its own. |
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| A metrical foot consisting of two stressed syllables |
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| a line of Five Iambs. Most common meter in English verse. Many fixed forms use this: Sonnets and Heroic Couplets. |
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| the poet does not write in Feet, meter is based on the number of stresses per line, not the number of syllables. |
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| recurring pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem. |
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| the unstressed syllable in a line of verse. |
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| A line of verse that ends in a full pause due to punctuation. |
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