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The basic unit of a poem
Line
"Nevermore"
Refrain: A repeated line or phrase, like a chorus.
The rhythmic measure of a line. (The number of feet in a line)
Metre
"👏I 👏met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . ."
Iamb: A metrical foot of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
A line with 5 metrical feet
Pentametre
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
Rhyme: Words that sound alike, especially at the end of lines.
"We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –"
Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
Unit of measure in a metrical line (e.g., iamb, trochee).
Foot
"👏Lit👏tle Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee"
Trochee: A foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.
A line with 6 metrical feet.
Hexametre
A group of lines forming a single unit
Stanza
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality"
Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds within words.
A 4-line stanza
Quatrain
👏Fare👏well! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou know'st thy estimate,
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.
Spondee: A foot with two stressed syllables.
A line with 4 metrical feet.
Tetrametre
The beat and movement of language.(patterns of stressed or unstressed syllables that give a poem its musical quality)
Rhythm
"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; "
Consonance: Repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in words.
A 2-line stanza
Couplet
"O 👏Ro👏me👏o, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Dactyl: A foot with a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
A line with 8 syllables.
Octosyllable
The voice of a narrator in a poem
The speaker
A fourteen-line poem that usually makes use of the metrical pattern of iambic pentameter
Sonnet
A famous experiment's example of "sound symbolism"
The Kiki and Bouba Effect?
"He said 👏to 👏his 👏friend, 'If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light..."
Anapest: A foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one.
A line with 10 syllables
Decasyllable