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100

The beat of a flow of a poem

Made up of a beat and repetition

Rhythm 

100

A repetition of similar sounding words

Rhyme

100

A certain pattern of rhyming indicated with a pattern

Rhyme scheme

100

The physical structure of a poem

Poetic form

100

An ancient form of writing that is made up of lines and stanzas

Poetry

200

A group of lines in a poem

Stanza

200

A series of four rhyme lines that make one stanza; can be its own poem, or one section within longer poem

Quatrain

200

A pair of rhyming lines in a row, usually of the same length

Couplet

200

A stanza with three lines

Tercet 

200

A type of poem with 14 lines can be broken down into four sections and has a pattern that can end rhymes and has a strict rhyme scheme: ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG: mostly about love or romance

Sonnet

300

A 19 line poem with lines, broken into 5 tercets , swallowed by a quatrain with a couplet at the end of the quatrain  The rhyme scheme is ABA/ABA/ABA/ABA/ABA/ABAA

villanelle 


300

A poem or song, narrating a story and short stanzas

Ballad