The Art of Poetry
Across
- 2. a line consisting of five feet
- 3. repetition of the same consonant at the beginning of words
- 4. ABA BCB CDC rhyming pattern
- 6. lines inscribed on a burial place
- 8. a line consisting of eight feet
- 10. a three-syllable foot with two unstressed syllables and a stressed syllable
- 13. a poem or lament for the death of a person
- 15. a narrative poem originally meant to be sung
- 17. a fourteen-line lyric poem in the 16th and 17th century
- 19. adjectives appearing after the noun, rather than before
- 20. AABBCC rhyming scheme
Down
- 1. a shortened form of a word
- 5. ABAB rhyming scheme
- 7. a two-syllable foot consisting of a an unstressed and a stressed syllable
- 9. a rhythm based on a three-syllable foot
- 11. a two-syllable foot with two stressed syllables
- 12. a line consisting of four feet
- 14. a rhythm based on two-syllable feet
- 16. repetition of a vowel sound in a line
- 18. a two-syllable foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable