The beat of a flow of a poem
Made up of a beat and repetition
Rhythm
A repetition of similar sounding words
Rhyme
A certain pattern of rhyming indicated with a pattern
Rhyme scheme
The physical structure of a poem
Poetic form
An ancient form of writing that is made up of lines and stanzas
Poetry
A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
A series of four rhyme lines that make one stanza; can be its own poem, or one section within longer poem
Quatrain
A pair of rhyming lines in a row, usually of the same length
Couplet
A stanza with three lines
Tercet
A type of poem with 14 lines can be broken down into four sections and has a pattern that can end rhymes and has a strict rhyme scheme: ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG: mostly about love or romance
Sonnet
A 19 line poem with lines, broken into 5 tercets , swallowed by a quatrain with a couplet at the end of the quatrain The rhyme scheme is ABA/ABA/ABA/ABA/ABA/ABAA
villanelle
A poem or song, narrating a story and short stanzas
Ballad