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Blank Verse
Metrically traditional, but without rhyme
Confessional Poetry
A school of poetry where the poet may expose personal, taboo, or difficult things about himself
Couplet
A two line stanza, or the same rhyme pattern in two conjoined lines
Dramatic Monologue
A poem that dramatizes someone’s thoughts and actions
End Rhyme
Rhymed sound at the end of the line
Endstop
The line ends with a period or the feeling of a period
Foot
A group of 2 or 3 stressed and unstressed syllables
Formalism
Following traditional, given poetic forms such as sonnets
Free Verse
Without rhyme or structured metrical pattern
Iamb
A foot with an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
Internal Rhyme
Rhymed sound before the end of the line
Meter
The use of patterns of stressed and unstressed rhythms in a poetic line
Movement
The way lines flow together
Ode
A poem that commemorates or celebrates
Pentameter
A line with 5 feet
