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Iambic Hexameter (The French's form of Iambic Pentameter)
6 feet, 12 syllables |
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The repetition of speech sounds- sometimes vowels, but usually consonants - in a sequence of nearby words on stressed syllables.
"Dawn goes down today" |
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Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
Tennessee. Ten nes see |
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The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
Crap, daffodil. |
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| Consists of unrhymed (blank) iambic pentameter |
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| A double bar II which indicates a natural pause in the speaking voice. (from the latin word for cut) |
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| Metrically incomplete line. A line ending with a incomplete foot. Lón don brídge is fáll ing dówn. |
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Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds.
Diddily dung down idiot. |
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| Two lines of verse, usually coupled by rhyme. Existed in the English poetry since rhythm entered the language |
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| A foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. Leningrad. Lén in grad. |
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A poem or line with two feet.
Cannon to right of them. (Can non to) (Right of them) |
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| Run on lines, a striding over. An incomplete sentence carries onto the next line. |
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| A formal lament for a dead person |
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Three Quatrains and a Couplet.
Abab Cdcd Efef gg |
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| Concluding Stanza, used at the end of Sestina. |
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| Correspondance of rhyming sound is exact. |
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| Words whose endings are alike, (and were at some point pronounced a like) but now are pronounced differently. |
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| Poem that lets the poem discover it's own form, no prescribed form. |
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| Rhyme words in which a stressed syllable is followed by unstressed. Chiming, Rhyming |
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| Poetry that makes little or no use of traditional rhyme and meter |
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| A line which has seven feet |
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| A poem which has six feet |
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| Closed couplet that was used in a epic poem or in plays became known as heroic. |
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| An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. such as "New Yórk" or "îamb" |
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| Appeals to the sense, for example a metaphor. |
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| Two words which rhyme on on unstressed syllable. |
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| Rhyme which appears within a line |
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An octave, turn and sestet.
Abbaabba cdecde |
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Rhyme that consists of a single stressed syllable.
Man Pan |
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| A set of patterns. If a poem's rhythm is structured into a recurrence of regular (that is equal-units) we call it this. |
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A line of one foot.
Thus I |
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| the most extensive use of irregular form is to be found in the three types of ode. A prescribed form. |
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| A combination of words whose sounds seem to resemble the sound it denotes. |
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| Rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds differ but are flanked by identical or similar consonants. |
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two successive unstressed or lightly stressed syllables.
of pen |
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| a stanza of four lines. The most common of English stanza forms. |
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| the concurrence in two or more lines of the last stressed vowel and of all speech sounds following that vowel. |
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| a seven line iambic pentameter stanza rhymin ababbcc |
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| the action or art of scanning a line to determine its devision into metrical feet |
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| has 9 lines, the first 8 are iambic pentameter, the last is iamic hexameter. Ababbcbcc |
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| off rhyme, differs from perfect rhyme in changing the vowel sound and/or the concluding consonants expected of perfect rhyme. |
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| Two successive syllable with approximately equal strong stress. Draw Back. |
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| Created by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Each foot in a poem must begin with a stress. |
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| A grouping of lines set off by space which usually has a pattern of meter or set of lines. |
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| measure only the number of syllables in a line without regard to the stress. |
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| A stanza of three lines which is usually linked with a single rhyme. |
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| linked tercet in which the second line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third lines of the next. |
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A stressed followed by an unstressed syllable.
London Bridge is falling down. |
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