National Poetry Month

2. An ancient form of Japanese poetry; first and third lines have 5 syllables, and the second has 7 syllables
4. a form of performance poetry that combines the elements of performance, writing, competition, and audience participation
6. musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted; commonly related to Poetry
7. the single, unbroken sound of a spoken or written word
9. the repetition of initial consonant sounds
10. a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes; ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
11. National Poetry Month is in what month?
12. a humorous poem consisting of five lines
13. 13th century Sufi mystic and Poet, wrote "On the Turn", "When I Die", and "The Gifts of the Beloved"
14. a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem

1. Irish poet and playwright, wrote "The Grave of Keats", "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", and "Her Voice"
3. a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama; famously used by William Shakespeare
5. American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist, wrote "Still I Rise", "Phenomenal Woman", and "On The Pulse Of Morning"
8. a stressed (or accented) syllable
10. American poet, novelist, and short story writer, wrote "Daddy", "Lady Lazarus", and "Tulips"