Type of Foot
Maroon
What is iambic?
Cult Classic
Alliteration
Stanza with two lines
What is a couplet?
This highly structured poem with a meter of 5-7-5 briefly describes the scene of convicts lounging in a prison yard.
What is a haiku?
"In silent night when rest I took / For sorrow near I did not look" (Anne Bradstreet)
What is end rhyme?
Purple
What is trochaic?
Wild Child
What is a rhyme?
Stanza with six lines
What is a sestet?
This poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley is dedicated to his dear friend John Keats, whose death clearly impacted Shelley for a long time.
What is an elegy?
"I'm nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody too?" (Emily Dickinson)
What is a caesura?
Introduce
What is anapestic?
Six Skills
What is sibilance?
Stanza with eight lines
What is an octave?
This poem made up entirely of quatrains tells the story of a sailor cursed for killing a seabird who ultimately recounts the events of his crews death to listeners at a wedding.
What is a ballad?
"Then straight I 'gin my heart to chide, / And did thy wealth on Earth abide?" (Anne Bradstreet)
What is elision?
Correct
What is iambic?
Shady Shore
What is alliteration?
Stanza with three lines
What is a tercet?
In this poem, made up of three quatrains and a couplet, the narrator recalls the lasting effect that his mistress's beautiful looks has on him.
What is a sonnet?
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep" (Robert Frost)
What is a refrain?
Strawberry
What is dactylic?
Warm Floor
What is assonance?
Stanza with seven lines
What is a septet?
This poem, comprised of five tercets and a quatrain, has two refrains throughout: "Nothing rhymes in English with an orange" and "It stands alone, and seems to make a star cringe"
What is a villanelle?
What is internal rhyme?