Poetic terms

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Across
  1. 3. Happiness and emotional fulfilment in love.
  2. 5. The beat or flow of a poem, created by syllables and stresses.
  3. 7. Objects or actions that represent deeper meanings
  4. 8. Loyalty and deep emotional commitment.
  5. 12. How the poem is organised (e.g., sonnet, free verse)
  6. 14. A group of lines in a poem
  7. 15. Love that is not returned or shared.
  8. 19. A strong pause within a line (often to reflect emotional tension)
  9. 20. A deep desire for someone who is absent or unattainable.
  10. 22. Emotional pain caused by lost or broken love.
  11. 23. An overpowering, often unhealthy, focus on love.
  12. 24. Envy in the context of love and relationships.
  13. 25. Brief and short-lived love or infatuation.
Down
  1. 1. Relating to deep affection and desire between lovers.
  2. 2. Love that is not allowed or accepted by society.
  3. 4. Intense, emotional, and often physical love.
  4. 6. Exaggeration for effect
  5. 9. Strong but short-lived and irrational feelings of attraction.
  6. 10. Sadness, often sweet or reflective in love poetry.
  7. 11. Long-lasting love that survives hardship or time.
  8. 13. Gentle and caring feelings in a relationship.
  9. 16. A sentence or phrase flowing over multiple lines without punctuation
  10. 17. The structure of a poem, including elements like line length, rhyme scheme, rhythm, and stanza structure
  11. 18. Descriptive language that creates pictures in the reader’s mind.
  12. 21. The repetition of hissing or hushing sounds, often associated with the "s" sound