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Stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllable in a metric foot of poetry
Dactyl
The rhythmic measure of a line.
Meter
Lines in a poem consisting of 5 feet and 10 syllables
Iambic Pentameter
A poem containing 14 lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme.
Sonnet
A line with four feet
Tetrameter
A line with 6 feet
Hexameter
2 lines of poetry that rhyme
Couplet
5 metrical feet no rhyme
Blank Verse
A reference to something that the reader is familiar with
Allusion
A line with 7 feet
Heptameter
Looks like a run on sentence and lacks punctuation.
Enjambment
A quote that gives some background info at the start of the poem
Epigraph
Metrical foot containing a stressed syllable followed by an unst syllable
Trochee
Repeating the same word at the beginning of each line
Anaphora
2nd syllable of a word is more pronounced
Iamb
2-3 syllable of a word is more pronounced.
Foot
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line.
Rhyme scheme
A pause or break in the line of poetry.
Caesura
A line with 2 feet
Diameter
Assonance
A line with one foot
Monometer
A metrical foot and emphasis on 2 stressed syllables and followed by an unstressed syllables
Anapest
A line with five feet
Pentameter
A line meter 3 feet
Trimeter