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3. royal
6. composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set meter.
7. prominence or emphasis given to particular syllables. Stressed syllables usually stand out because they have long, rather than short, vowels, or because they have a different pitch or are louder than other syllables.
8. or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme.
10. a poem, a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought. Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a couplet.
12. rima
13. a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene, or a long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds or extraordinary events set in the distant past. Idylls of the King, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, is about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
14. rhyme
17. pentameter
19. single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to prose).
20. verse
21. a story. Ballads, epics, and lays are different kinds of narrative poems.

1. verse (also vers libre)
2. diem
4. (or epithalamion)
5. couplet
9. that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea. The poem God's World by Edna St. Vincent Millay begins with an apostrophe: “O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!/Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!/Thy mists that roll and rise!”
11. rhyme
15. de geste
16. of speech
18. or idyl
19. epic poem of the 11th to the 14th century, written in Old French, which details the exploits of a historical or legendary figure, especially Charlemagne.
21. rima