Vocab
Blank Verse
5 meterical feet with no rhyme
Rhyme scheme
the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line
Tetrameter
A line with four feet
Foot
2-3 syllables in a line of poetry usually stressed then unstressed
Monometer
A line with one foot
Alliteration
repeating the same sound at the beginning of words
Consonant sound
Trimeter
A line with three feet
Meter
the rhythmic measure of a line
Caesura
A pause or break in the line of poetry. Punctuation lets you know
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Hexameter
A line with six feet
Anaphora
Repeating the same word at the beginning of each line.
Epigraph
A quote that gives some background info at the start of the poem
Anapest
A metrical foot (rhythm) and emphasis on 2 stressed syllables and followed by an unstressed syllables
Dimeter
A line with two feet
Iamb
2nd syllable of a word is more pronounced
Enjambment
Looks like a run on sentence, lacks punctuation
Allusion
a reference to something that the reader is familiar with
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Mr. Morehouse
Iambic Pentameter
Lines in a poem consisting of 5 feet and 10 syllables
A line with seven feet
Heptameter
Dactyl
Stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllable in a metric foot of poetry
Sonnet
a poem containing fourteen lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme.
Who wrote this sonnet?:
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; (A)
Coral is far more red than her lips' red; (B)
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; (A)
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (B)
I have seen roses damasked, red and white, (C)
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; (D)
And in some perfumes is there more delight (C)
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. (D)
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know (E)
That music hath a far more pleasing sound; (F)
I grant I never saw a goddess go; (E)
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. (F)
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare (G)
As any she belied with false compare. (G)Rhythm
Shakespeare
a metrical foot containing a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
Trochee