Poetry Form
The feeling a reader experiences as a result of tone.
Mood
"Rage, rage against the dying..."
"...of the light."
The book in which "Rime" first appeared.
The Lyrical Ballads
I value this over logic and reason in my works of art.
Emotion and feeling
The most common meter in the English language.
Iambic Pentameter
Language that appeals to any of the five senses.
Imagery
"Quote the raven..."
"...nevermore."
Where the "...slimy things did crawl with legs/upon..."
The slimy sea
As opposed to the architecture and culture of a rapidly modernizing world, I harken back to this idealized time.
Middle Ages
A line of iambic tetrameter poetry consists of this.
Four feet of unstressed/stressed syllables.
In poetry, when one line ends without punctuation.
Enjambment
"Anyone lived in a pretty how..."
"...town."
How the mariner keeps the wedding guest's attention after he lets go of him.
Holds him with a glittering eye (stare)
A higher spiritual power
Anapest octameter.
Eight feet of unstressed/unstressed/stressed.
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Alliteration
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep/but I've got..."
"...miles to go before I sleep/miles to go before I sleep."
How the mariner is able to cry out to the ghost ship.
Bites his arm and sucks the blood
I love this type of building style, named after invading Germanic tribes, and modeled after Medieval castles and cathedrals.
"Higher still and higher/From the earth thou springest/Like a cloud of fire;" has this many feet.
Trimeter
Poems written without a rhyming scheme.
Free verse
"I went out to a hazel wood/because a fire was in my head/and cut and peeled a hazel wand/and hooked a berry to a..."
...thread."
"He prayeth well, that..."
...loveth well."
Characters I write are generally impulsive and this, enabling them to speak with birds and bless sea snakes.
Illogical
Iambic Dimeter