Assonance
Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
Ballad meter
Four line stanza rhymed abcb
Blank verse
Not rhymed iambic pentameter
Dactyl
Metrical foot of three syllables, including an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables
End-stopped
Line with a pause at end
Free verse
Poetry that is not written in traditional Meter but still rhythmical
Heroic couplet
The end stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc
Hexameter
Line containing six feet
iamb
Two syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by accented syllable
Internal rhyme
Rhyme that occurs within a line
Pentameter
Line containing five feet
Rhyme royal
Seven line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc
Sonnet
Poem in iambic pentameter, normally composed of fourteen lines.
Terza rima
Three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc
Tetrameter
Line of four feet
Antecedent
That which has gone before to which a pronoun refers too
Imperative
Mood of a verb that gives an order
Modify
Restrict or limit meaning
Parallel structure
Similar grammatical structure within a sentence or paragraph
Periodic sentence
Sentence that becomes grammatically complete only at the end