Vocab
Poetic Devices
Structure and Format
Types of Poems
Examples
100
two lines of poetry that rhyme at the end 
couplet 
100
words that resemble sounds 
onomatopoeia 
100

a poem that has lines ending with words that sound the same

end rhyme 
100
A Japanese style poem with a total of seventeen syllables
haiku
100

An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

~Matsuo Basho

Haiku 
200
four lines of poetry 
quatrain 
200
the repetition of the same consonant at the beginning of words
alliteration
200

rhyme in which the stressed vowels and all following consonants and vowels are identical, but the consonants preceding the rhyming vowels are different

complete rhyme 
200
a poem with 5 lines with an AABBA rhyme scheme 
limerick 
200

The fog comes

on little cat feet.  

It sits looking 

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

Fog by Carl Sandburg

Free Verse 
300
8 lines of poetry
octave 
300
the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the middle or end of a word
consonance
300

 It is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa.

internal rhyme 
300
a poem without any structure, meter, or rhyme 
free verse 
300

There once was a wonderful star

Who thought she would go very far

Until she fell down

And looked like a clown

She knew she would never go far.

STAR by Katlin Guenther 

Limerick 
400
groups of lines of poetry separated by a space
stanza
400
the repetition of the same vowel sounds 
assonance
400

a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line

internal rhyme 
400
a typically sad poem that is meant to be sung 
ballad 
400

"Hear the mellow wedding bells" by Edgar Allen Poe


Assonance
500
a single line of poetry 
verse
500
the repetition of the same line or lines in a poem 
refrain
500

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

rhyme scheme 
500
traditionally evokes images of the natural world 
haiku 
500

Zach sneezed when he heard jazz music.

Consonance
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