Poetry Terms

2. A grouped set of lines within a poem, usually separated by a blank line.
3. A poem of unrhymed iambic pentameter. (2 words)
5. A grouping of four lines.
8. A measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
11. A grouping of two rhymed lines.
12. The repetition of identical sounds in the final stressed syllables of two or more words.
13. Made up of three quatrains and one couplet; uses rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG; also called “Shakespearean sonnet”. (2 words)
14. The basic rhythmic structure of a line of poetry; the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables; the ‘beat’.
16. The pattern of end rhyme in a poem, using letters (2 words)
18. A poem form consisting of 14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter.
20. A poem with no rhyme and no meter. (2 words)

1. A grouping of eight lines.
4. The method of determining and (usually) writing the meter.
6. A pattern of 5 iambs (a foot made up of an unstressed and stressed syllable). (2 words)
7. up of one octave and one sestet; uses rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA; also called “Petrarchan sonnet”. (2 words)
9. Rhymed words within a single line of poetry(2 words)
10. Words that are similar in end sounds, but not identical (2 words)
15. A single line of poetry. (Can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry).
17. Rhymed words that are used at the ends of lines of poetry (2 words)
19. A grouping of six lines.