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Verse

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composition of lines (with line breaks) of more or less regular rhythm

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Prose

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ordinary speech or writing characterized by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech (Looks like sentences on a page with no line breaks)

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Speaker/persona

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speaker in and revealed through the voice speaking in the poem. Could be the voice of the poet or a created character

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lyric poetry

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a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. Addresses the reader directly

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Narrative poetry

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a poem that tells a series of events using poetic devices such as rhyme, rhythm, compact language, and attention to sound

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dramatic poetry

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a style/type of poetry that expresses emotional feelings

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stanza

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a division in a poem usually containing lines characterized by a common patter of meter, rhyme, and number of lines

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singleton

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single line of poetry

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couplet

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2 lines in stanza

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tercet/triplet

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3 in stanza

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quatrain

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4 in stanza

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quintet

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5 in stanza

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sestet

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6 in stanza

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septet

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7 in stanza

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octave (octet)

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8 in stanza

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diction

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choice of words

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syntax

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ordering the words in meaningful and gramatical meanings

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formal diction

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educated language

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general

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literate speech and writing (everyday)

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colloquial

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casual conversation of informal writing and might include slang expressions now used by the culture at large

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tone

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mood the poem creates for the reader through words

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This Is Just To Say

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William Carlos Williams

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imagery

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using senses, open to symbolic interpretation.

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image

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representation of a certain thing using great detail. Doesn’t need to be metaphorical 0r visual

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symbol

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a word/image that expresses something different than the physical aspect of the word

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A Sort of Song

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William Carlos Williams

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In a Station of the Metro

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Ezra Pound

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“I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–“(465)

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Emily Dickinson

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simile

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makes an explicit and direct comparison using like, as, seems, appears, or than,
2 unlikely things are compared

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metaphor

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comparison of two unlikely things without using like or as

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tenor

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subject to which a metaphor uses

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vehicle

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attributes that a smilie/metaphor borrow from

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conceit

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complex image

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apostrophe

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poet addresses an absent person

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allusion

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representation of people, places, etc. either directly or indirectly

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metonymy

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one word is substituted for another word (closely similar)

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synedoche

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a figure of speech that expresses either more or less than it actually means

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personification

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inanimate objects are described with human characteristics

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hyperbole

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large exaggeration

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understatement

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describing something using words that are not very good as it (something) deserves

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The Author To Her Book

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Anne Bradstreet

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“she being Brand”

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e.e. Cummings

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Harlem

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Langston Hughes

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iamb

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unstressed+stressed

compare,away,enough,today, arise

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Trochee

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stressed+unstressed

season,giving, preacher, louder,lovely, virtue,faithful

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Spondee

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stressed+unstressed

dead set, childbirth

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pyrrhic

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unstressed +unstressed

of a, to, the, in a, when the

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anapest

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unstressed+unstressed+stressed

seventeen, understand, intervene

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dactyl

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stressed+unstressed+unstressed

carefully, merrily, desperate, tenderly, beautifuly

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open form

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doesnt conform to established forms, deviates from rhyme patterns, repetition of words/phrases, arrangement of structure

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free verse

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verse composed of varying, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern

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end-stopped

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an idea of sentence is complete on its own line, such a line has a pause at the end of it that reflects normal speech patterns

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enjambment

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line break in the middle of an idea, so the sentence or idea goes into the next line, such a line ends without a pause and continues onto the next line for its meaning. Can create tension, excitement

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fixed form

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may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhyme, or stanzas

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blank verse

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unrhymed lines that have a regular mater, usually iambic pentameter

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meter

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rhythmic pattern of stresses in a poem

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foot

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metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured

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scansion (scan)

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when we measure the stresses in a line

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monometer

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1 foot line

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dimeter

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2 foot line

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trimeter

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3 foot line

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tetrameter

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4 foot line

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pentameter

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5 foot line

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hexameter

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6 foot line

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heptameter

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7 foot line

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octameter

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8 foot line

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feminine ending`

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unstressed syllable at the close of a line

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masculine ending

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stressed syllable at the close of a line

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Because I could not stop for Death—(712)

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emily Dickinson

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We Real Cool

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Gwendolyn Brooks

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When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

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Walt Whitman

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The Red Wheelbarrow

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William Carlos Williams

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anaphora

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repitition of a word(s) at the beginning of 2 or more successive verses, clauses, etc

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alliteration

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beginning of 2 or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same constant sound or sound group

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consonance

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harmony of words

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assonance

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rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words

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onomatopoeia

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formation of a word by imitaion of a sound made by or associated with its referent

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caesura

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break, pause, interuption

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vowels

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a,e,i,o,u

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consonants

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consonants agree, but vowels differ

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true rhyme

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identical rhyme/real rhyme

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slant rhyme

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vowels/consonants of stressed syllables are identical

years, yours
eyes, light

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assonance rhyme

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repetition of similar/ identical vowel sounds

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eye rhyme

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2 words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently

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identical rhyme

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repetition of a word

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Apocopated rhyme

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rhyming a word at the end of a sentence

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internal rhyme

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rhyming within a line or verse

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head rhyme (initial rhyme)

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rhyme at the beginning of lines in a verse

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end rhyme (terminal rhyme)

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end sounds/words rhyme

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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Robert Frost

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Daddy

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Sylvia Plath

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The Weary Blues

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Langston Hughes

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villanelle

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5 tercets and 1 quatrain.

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sestina

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6 sestets and 1 tercet. non-rhyming. the last word in each phrase in the first sestet rotates throughout each of the remaining sestets

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volta

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shift in thought

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prose poem

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poetry written in prose instead of verse but still has poetic qualities

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sonnet

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little song, 14 lines, iambic pentameter

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italian (Petrarchan)

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octave with rhyme pattern ABBA ABBA and sestet with no set pattern

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shakespearian (english)

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3 quatrains and a couplet: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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Spenserian

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ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

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One Art

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Elizabeth Bishop

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Nani

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Alberto Rios

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The Colonel

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Carolyn Forche

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Sonnet 43

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Edna Vincent Murray

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First Poem for You

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Kim Addonoizio

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If We Must Die

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Claude McKay

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Yet Do I Marvel

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Countee Cullen

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