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| long meter (long measure) |
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| iambic tetrameter quatrain |
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| short meter (short measure) |
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| heroic quatrain (elegiac stanza) |
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| iambic pentameter quatrain, abab |
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| Sapphic stanza (anglicized) |
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| quatrain of 3 tetrameters and 1 dimeter line |
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| a six-line stanza of iambic tetrameter, tetrameter, trimeter, tetrameter, tetrameter, trimeter, rhyming aabccb |
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| 7 lines of iambic pentameter, ababbcc |
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| 8 lines of iambic pentameter, abababcc |
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| 8 lines of iambic pentameter followed by 1 iambic hexameter, abab bcbc c |
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| 14 lines of iambic pentameter, with a "turn" |
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| Shakespearean or Elizabethan or English sonnet |
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| 3 quatrains and a couplet, abab cdcd efef gg |
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| Italian or Petrarchan sonnet |
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| an octave and a sestet, abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd |
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| three quatrains and a couplet, abab bcbc cdcd ee |
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| Elizabethan sonnet in iambic hexameter |
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| 5 triplets and a quatrain, aba aba aba aba aba abaa |
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| 6 sestets and 1 triplet, repeating the words at the ends of lines as follows: abcdef faebdc cfdabe ecbfad deacfb bdfeca and in the triplet in midline and line end, be - dc - fa |
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| verse written without a particular metrical pattern |
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| a poetic address to something or someone who is not with the speaker |
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| a lovers' morning farewell |
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| a short and witty commentary |
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| an informal lyric written as if a letter to a friend |
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| a lyric celebrating a marriage |
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| a formal lyric of mourning |
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| a lyric about love in a rural, idyllic setting |
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| a mocking critique of evil or foolishness |
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| a formal, ceremonial, complex lyric, generally in celebration or commemoration of a person or object, but sometimes to mark a moment of crisis |
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