Types of Poems
Poetry that does not rhyme and does not have a regular meter
Free Verse
A group of lines forming a recurring set
Stanza
The father of free verse
Walt Whitman
An eight line stanza
Octave
Literary movement that focused on beauty and individualism that started in the 1700s/18th Century
Romanticism
Poem of praise for a specific subject
Ode
A row of words that ends for a specific reason
Line
Reclusive lady poet
Emily Dickinson
A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
Quatrain
Literary movement that swept through BOTH Europe and the U.S.
Romanticism
A statement of belief that can be written in lyric
Credo
A repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Iamb/Foot
Moved into a cabin in the woods and wrote Walden
Henry David Thoreau
A pair of lines that forms a complete thought
Couplet
Literary movement that was exclusive to the U.S.
Transcendentalism
Straightforward writing that flows with natural language; artistic and ultra-descriptive passages of text
Prose
Rhythmic structure of a line or stanza (stressed/untressed)
Wrote Leaves of Grass and "Song of Myself" about the American landscape and people
Walt Whitman
A 14-line poem typically written in iambic pentameter and following a specific rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Literary movement that fought back against rationality and law and pursued nature instead
Transcendentalism
A 14 line poem, typically written in iambic pentameter, following a specific rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Poetic rhythm that uses 5 unstressed and 5 stressed syllables
Iambic Pentameter
National parks guru
John Muir
The last six lines of a sonnet OR a six-line stanza
Sestet
List three of the six tenets of Romanticism
Any of the following: Nature, Beauty, Emotion/Passion, Individualism, Praise of Artistic Creativity, Supernatural/Figurative Language