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| two consecutive lines that rhyme and have the same meter |
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| three consecutive lines that rhyme |
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| numerous tercets with interlocking rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc ded efe |
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| four-line stanza, most popular line grouping |
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| quatrains with alternating eight and six syllable lines and an abcb rhyme scheme |
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| fourteen lined poem, usually in iambic pentameter |
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| an octave with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba presents the situation, attitude, or problem, a following sestet with a varying rhyme scheme resolves the situation |
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| English/Shakespearean sonnet |
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| three quatrains with a couplet and a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg |
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| nineteen lines usually broken into five tercets and one quatrain; tercets all share the aba rhyme scheme while the quatrain has an abaa; in addition, line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18, and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, and 19 |
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| six sestets plus an envoy consisting of three lines, six words are repeated in a specified order at the end of the lines; two of the words are repeated in each line of the envoy in no set order, one in the middle and one at the end of the line |
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| enerally a humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work |
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| a poem arranged on the page to evoke a particularly appropriate shape |
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| generally seen as serious lyric poems with a formal tone loftily celebrating the attributes of the subject, speaker often uses apostrophe, no fixed form |
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| brief, pointed, witty poem, usually in couples with irony, satire, or paradox |
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| five anapestic lines rhyming aabba; lines 1, 2, and 5 have three feet while 3 and 4 have two feet, light and humorous, usually sexually explicit and anonymously written |
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| the English interpretation of seventeen syllables in three lines (5-7-5) is an approximation of the Japanese versions which have an actual duration, generally depict intense emotion or a vivid image of nature which are meant to lead to spiritual insight |
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| a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, no longer has fixed form |
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| an explicit comparison between two things using words such as “like,” “as,” “than,” “appears,” or “seems” |
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| makes a comparison between two unlike things, but does it implicitly, sometimes by saying one thing is another, and other times merely implying the comparison |
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| like a pun, only the “alternative” meaning is sexually suggestive |
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| part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice versa, ex. "Princeton won the fencing match." |
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| something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it, ex. "She prefers the silver screen to reading." |
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| an address either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend |
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| an exaggeration for emphasis |
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