Poetry Boot Camp

3. consists of two successive rhyming verses that contain a complete thought within the two lines.
4. usually a poem that mourns the death of an individual, the absence of something deeply loved, or the transience of mankind.
7. substituting the name of an attribute for the name of the thing itself (they counted heads)
8. consists of five tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets and together as the last two lines of the quatrain.
9. consists of four lines with a rhyme scheme of a-b-c-b. The first and third lines are tetrameter and the second and fourth are trimeter
10. A division of a poem based on thought or form
12. divided between eight lines called the octave, using two rhymes arranged a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a, and six lines called the sestet, using any arrangement of either two or three rhymes: c-d-c-d-c-d and c-d-e-c-d-e

1. uses a part to explain a whole or a whole to explain a part. ex. Lend me an ear
2. composed of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g. Again the units marked off by the rhymes and the development of the thought often correspond.
4. the running over of a sentence form one verse or stanza into the next without stopping at the end of the first
5. a nine-line stanza consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by an alexandrine, a line of iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-b-c-c.
6. the most widely used type of poem, so diverse in its format that a rigid definition is impossible.
11. a five-line nonsense poem with an anapestic meter. The rhyme scheme is usually a-a-b-b-a. The first, second, and fifth lines have three stresses; and the third and fourth have two stresses
13. rhythmic flow of a sequence
14. an exalted, complex, rapturous lyric poem written about a dignified, lofty subject—a hero, an aspect of nature, etc.