Poetry Terms and Poems

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Across
  1. 3. Vividly self-revelatory verse associated with a number of American poets writing in the 1950s and 1960s.
  2. 7. A quotation from another literary work that is placed beneath the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem.
  3. 11. a palm caked hard by dirt,
  4. 12. An Italian stanzaic form consisting of tercets with interwoven rhymes. A concluding couplet rhymes with the penultimate line of the last tercet.
  5. 14. no images save those
  6. 15. Originally an Arabic verse form dealing with loss and romantic love. Consisting of syntactically and grammatically complete couplets, the form also has an intricate rhyme scheme.
Down
  1. 1. bassline, cracking backbone and singing thru hips.
  2. 2. go down upon your marrow-bones
  3. 4. A term meaning “the art of poetry,” an ars poetica poem expresses that poet's aims for poetry and/or that poet's theories about poetry.
  4. 5. An occasional verse form, usually in celebration of a wedding.
  5. 6. the dead
  6. 8. of wishing the stain would vanish?
  7. 9. why not, and shot beautiful women
  8. 10. of us moves.
  9. 13. A Japanese verse form of three unrhyming lines in five, seven, and five syllables.
  10. 14. A pithy, instructive statement or truism, like a maxim or adage.