poetry essentials

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Across
  1. 6. A group of consecutive lines in a poem that forms a single unit. It is comparable to a paragraph in an essay.
  2. 7. A very short humorous or nonsensical poem with five lines
  3. 8. Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme. These poems may use internal rhyme, repetition, alliteration, or onomatopoeia.
  4. 9. A song or songlike poem that tells a story.
  5. 10. A fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.
Down
  1. 1. Repeating a word, phrase, line, or stanza multiple times within the poem.
  2. 2. The pattern of end rhymes in a poem. You can identify this by using different letters of the alphabet for each rhyme.
  3. 3. A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
  4. 4. Rhymes within lines.
  5. 5. Originating in Japan, this three-line poem contains seventeen syllables. 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line, 5 syllables in the last line