Form
the form of poetry defined by its absence of rules
What is free verse?
the most common meter in the English language
What is iambic pentameter?
What is annotation?
a rhyme at the end of a line
What is an end rhyme?
The joke of "To Miss Vera Beringer" by Lewis Carroll relies on the name of this island
What is the Isle of Man?
Mostly anapestic quintets (five lives) rhymed AABBA, these poems are usually funny in topic
What are limericks?
What is a foot?
patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is meter?
a rhyme within a line
What is an internal line?
the Maya Angelou sonnet set in New York City
What is "Harlem Hopscotch"?
a seasonal word employed in traditional haiku
What is a kigo?
to mark stressed and unstressed syllables
What is scansion/scanning?
this type of poem has a two-part structure
words that only look as if they rhyme, based on spelling
What is an eye rhyme?
the poet who wrote the free verse poems "Some Days," "The Ladybug," "Introduction to Poetry," and "Budapest"
Who is Billy Collins?
a group of lines
What is a stanza?
a line with four feet
What is tetrameter?
When scanning a line of poetry, we use this symbol to mark stressed syllables
What is a slash/accent?
words that only share one rhyming syllable (the last syllable)
What is a masculine rhyme?
the first line of "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns
What is "O my Luve is like a red, red rose"?
With an ABAB rhyme scheme, these poems, consisting of quatrains, typically tell stories
What are ballads?
the study of rhythm, stress, and intonation
What is prosody?
a numerical prefix + "meter"
How do we name the length of a line?
rhyme wherein the "goalpost" consonant sounds stay the same, but the vowel sound(s) change (e.g., light and late, part and port)
What is pararhyme?
Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" describes the people in the metro station to this natural scene
What is "petals on a wet, black bough"?