2 Flashcards
Typographical Rhythms
The way white space in front of, in the middle of, or after lines creates rhythmic pauses
Villanelle
A 19 line form using only two rhymes
Dipody
A group of two feet
Quatrain
A stanza of four lines
Octave
A stanza of eight lines
Tercet
A group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with adjacent groups of three lines
Enjambment
The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza
Dactyl
A foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short
Trochee
A foor of two syllables, a long followed by a short
Tetrameter
A line consisting of four dipodies in trochiac
Anapestic
A foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long
Lyric Poetry
Having the form and musical quality of a song
Sestina
Poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy
Ballad
A simple narrative poem of folk origin
Envoy
A short stanza concluding a poem in certain archaic metrical forms
