Poetry Glossary
poem
subject
theme
carpe diem
ubi sunt
narrative poem
epic
ballad: popular
broadside
literary
lyric poem
ode
elegy
aubade
meditation
pastoral
occasional poem
didactic poem
satiric poem
parody
dramatic poem
stanza
couplet
heroic couplet
tercet
triplet
terza rima
quatrain
common measure
ballad stanza
closed form
epigram
blank verse
sonnet
Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet
Shakespearean (English) sonnet
haiku
villanelle
sestina
limerick
syllabic verse
open form/free verse
shaped verse
concrete poem
found poem
diction
concrete
abstract
poetic diction
incremental repetition
rhyme
exact
near or half
eye
end
internal
masculine
feminine
alliteration
assonance
euphony
cacophony
onomotopoeia
rhythm
scansion
meter
monometer
dimeter
trimeter
tetrameter
pentameter
hexameter
heptameter
octameter
stress
foot
iamb
trochee
anapest
dactyl
spondee
pyrrhic
cesura
persona
imagery
visual
auditory
tactile
olfactory
gustatory
synaesthesia
figures of speech
metaphor
simile
personification
conceit
hyperbole
understatement
apostrophe
symbol
paradox
ambiguity
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