Basic Terms
A basic measure in poetry. Usually 2 or 3 syllables.
Foot
The rhythmic measure of a line.
Meter
Best known, and influential English poet.
Shakespeare
Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
Couplet
Quoth the Raven...
Nevermore
When a line doesn't end and runs into another line.
Enjambment
Most Common metrical foot in poetry
Iamb
Author of Paradise Lost.
John Milton
I need not your needs, They're needless to me
Alliteration
Genesis says the forbidden fruit was this.
It doesn't
A deliberate pause, break, or pivot in a line
Caesura
A pattern of Stressed/Unstressed syllables
Trochee
Famous American Gothic poet.
Edgar Allen Poe
The light of the fire is a sight.
Assonance
Name 2 stories written by Shakespeare other than, Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew, Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Merchant of Venice
A repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line.
Anaphora
Pattern of stressed/2 unstressed syllables.
Dactyl
Most common type of sonnet.
Shakespearean
Oh, say can you see // by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed // as the twilights last gleaming?
Caesura
John Donne wrote a poem we read. The title is four words long
Death be Not Proud
A short verse or quote at the start of a book, poem, or chapter.
Epigraph
Anapest
A type of poetic verse that is Iambic but doesn't rhyme.
Miltonic
ABBA ABBA CDECDE
Italian Sonnet
list 3 epic poems we discussed in class.
Beowulf, Odyssey, Iliad, Paradise Lost, The Inferno