Sonnets
abbaabba cdcdcd ( or one of several two-rhyme or three-rhyme combinations without couplet) is this kind of sonnet form.
Petrarchan
A line of poetry written in meter is made up of metrical units called what. It is a unit consisting of at least one stressed syllable and usually one or more unstressed syllables. There are five common types used by poets writing in English.
Foot (not what's connected to your leg)
Two stressed syllables, as in heartbeat, airplane, football. This foot would not be used for an entire poem. If it were, it would like someone relentlessly hammering nails.
spondee
abab cdcd efgefg ababcdcd efggfe
is the form.....sometimes......sometimes not.
Anglo-Italian sonnet
Bernier said this, " Tributes, no doubt, to the basic form of a sonnet." He was speaking of.....
variants
abba cddc is what kind of sonnet form
envelope sonnet
Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in: forget, deceive, compare.
Iamb
A line of verse of five feet. Serious verse in English since the time of Chaucer - epic, drama, meditative, narrative
pentameter
various combinations of elements characterizing the Italian and the English forms is this type of sonnet.
A word, a phrase, a line or even a whole stanza that is repeated exactly, or almost exactly, throughout the poem according to some regular pattern. This often occurs at the end of a stanza.
Refrain
abab bcbc cdcd ee is this type of sonnet form.
Spenserian sonnet
A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in: listen, over, lonely.
trochee
A line consisting of four feet.
Tetrameter
Eleven syllable lines does this sonnet ye have.
French sonnet
A term coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins for rhythm based on the number of stressed syllables in a line without regard to the number of unstressed syllables.
Sprung Rhythm
abab cdcd efef gg is this type of sonnet form.
Shakespearean or English sonnet
Two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable as in: understand, seventeen, luncheonette.
anapest
Trimeter
The Italian ( usually) sonnet with an additional (usually six) lines: known as "tails"
caudate sonnet
Iambic Pentameter lines rhymed in pairs. A favorite measure of Chaucer. This verse form did not come into its greatest popularity until the middle of the seventeenth century after which time it was long the dominant mode for the poetic drama.
Heroic Couplet
abbaabba cdccde is the form of sonnet that also has no volta: octave and sestet are combined.
Miltonic sonnet
One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, as in : excellent, opening, temperate.
A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true.
Paradox
A sonnet whose octave is curtailed to six lines and sestet is curtailed to four and a half lines is this type of sonnet.
Curtal sonnet
A system for describing conventional rhythms by dividing lines into feet, indicating the locations of binomial accents and counting the syllables.
scansion