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| A fourteen-line lyric poem. |
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| A poem that expresses the personal mood, feeling, or meditation of a single speaker. |
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| The speaker in a poem (a word meaning "mask"). |
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| The emotional or song-like quality, the lyrical property, to lyric poetry. |
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| What sonnets are written in. Contain a carefully followed rhyme scheme. |
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| The pattern in which they rhymed line-endings are arranged in a poem. This may be expressed as a sequence of recurrences in which each line ending on the same rhyme is given the same alphabetic symbol. |
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| A type of metric foot. Refers to a foot of poetry that begins with an unstressed stable followed by a stresses one. |
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| The basic unit of measuring the accentual-syllabic meter at work in a poem. |
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| A metrical verse line having five main stresses, traditionally described as a line of five 'feet.' |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| Seven lines of iambic pentameter. |
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| The rhyme, stress, and intonation of speech. |
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| All Sonnets are Arguments |
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| Their form serves to advance the poet/persona's line of reasoning (with raying degrees of ethos, pathos, and logos) in order to persuade the reader and/or person addressed in the poem. |
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Italian Sonnet
Petrarchan Sonnet |
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| Consists of fourteen lines broken into an octave and a sestet. |
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| stanza consisting of eight lines. Usually rhymes abbaabbaa. |
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| Stanza consisting of six lines. Usually rhymes cdecde or cdcdcd. |
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English Sonnet
Elizabethan Sonnet
Shakespearean Sonnet |
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| Consists of three quatrains and a couplet. |
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| Signaled by a transition word like "but" or "yet" at the beginning of the sestet, which means that the sestet must in some way release the tension built up in the octave. |
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| A pair of rhyming iambic pentameter lines at the end of an english sonnet. |
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| The line by line analysis of a poem. |
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| The act of noting/marking the stressed & unstressed beats in a poetic line. |
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