Types of Poems & Songs Flashcards
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- Term for the literary form that burlesques (mocks) the epic by treating a trivial subject in “grand style” or uses the epic formulas to make a trivial subject ridiculously by ludicrously overacting it.
- Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock” is an example | | in polished verse the trivialities of polite society. The cutting of a lock of hair elevated into a grandiose event.
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Mock Epic
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•A song or short narrative poem.
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Lay or Lai
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- A stanzaic pattern named for a Greek poet-a woman who wrote love lyrics of great beauty (600 B.C.)
- Consists of 3 lines of 11 syllables each: (-UU|–|-UU|-U|-U) & a 4th line of 5 syllables: (-UU|-U)
- Hardy was one of the most successful modern writers of -
- Below is the opening stanza of Hardy’s “The Temporary the All”:| |
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Sapphic
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•An elaborate, dignified, & imaginative lyric verse, directed to a single purpose or dealing w/ 1 theme.
•In English there are 3 types:
1) Pindaric- Gray’s “The Bard”
2) | |- Collins’ “- to Evening”
3) irregular- Wordsworth’s “-: Intimations of Immortality”
•For his -s, Keats devised his own form.
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Ode
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- Italian sonnet + a tail of 3 lines
* Rarely in English form
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Caudate Sonnet
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- A work expressing moods appropriate to evening or nighttime.
- Also called a SERENADE.
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Nocturne
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- A poem containing - imagery (shepherds & rustic life) written in dignified, serious language, having a theme of grief @ the loss of a friend or important person.
- A combining of the - eclogue & the -. Note: In many –, the shepherd becomes a code word for “poet.” Accordingly, almost any poet’s - for another poet-such as W.H. Auden’s for W.B. Yeats- will display some - elements.
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Pastoral Elegy
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•A system for describing conventional rhythms by dividing lines into feet, indicating accents & counting syllables.
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Scansion
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- Verse expressing grief or tribulation.
- A lament.
- A complaint/lyric poem in which the poet laments his unresponsive mistress, | | his unhappy lot in life, or regrets the sorry state of the world.
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Plaint
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•A short lyric, usually dealing w/ love or a pastoral theme & designed for, or suitable for, a musical setting.
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Madrigal
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•The text or book, containing thursday story, tale, or plot of an opera or of any long musical composition-a cantata, for instance.
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Liberetto
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•An Irish funeral song.
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Keen
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- A composition, usually verse, arranged in such a way that it spells words, phrases, or sentences when certain letters are selected according to an orderly sequence.
- True –1 in which the INITIAL letters form a word.
- Telestitch-1 in which the FINAL letters form a word.
- Mesostitch-1 in which the MIDDLE letters form a word.
- Abecedarius-1 in which the initial letters form the alphabet.
- Double – ingenious word puzzles in which the 1st letters of the names of an author & a work come @ the beginnings of words composed of patters from a quote from that work.
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Acrostic
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- A type of Japanese poetry similar to Haiku.
* Consists of 31 syllables arranged in 5 lines, each of 7 syllables, except the 1st & 3rd which have 5 syllables.
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Tanka
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- A morning song, as of birds.
* The plural refers to the 1st of the Catholic Church @ which prescribed prayers are sung.
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Matin
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- A 3 lines stanza w/ interlocking rhyme scheme (aba bcb cdc ded…), usually written in iambic pentameter.
- Has been popular w/ many English poets including Milton, Shelly, Byron, Yeats & Auden.
- The rhyme scheme, but not the usual meter, was used by Hardy.
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Terza Rima
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•An acrostic in which the final letter forms a word.
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Telestitch
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- A short lyric, usually dealing w/ love or a pastoral theme & designed for a musical setting.
- Elizabethan-no accompaniment
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Madrigal
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- A term used for pastoral writing that deals w/ rural life in a manner rather formal & fanciful.
- refers collectively to the pastoral literature of such writers as the ancients Theocritus & Virgil.
- In the present loose usage, it refers to poetry w/ a rustic background-as in W.H. Auden’s mixed sequence called -.
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Bucolic
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•Unrhymed verse-usually iambic pentameter.
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Blank Verse
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•One of the most popular of the artificial French verse forms.
•3 stanzas & an envoy
1. Refrain
2. Envoy
3.Use of only 3 or 4 rhymes in the entire poem.
•Chaucer’s “- de bon conseyl” & Rossetti’s “- of Dead Ladies”.
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Ballade
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•Poetry in which the closing syllables of 1 line are repeated in the following line-& usually making up that line- w/ a different meaning & thus making a reply or a comment.
•Flourished in the 16th & 17th centuries in pastoral poetry & drama.
•Hardy’s “The Elf– Answers” begins:
“How much I | | how?
For life, or not long?”
-Not long.
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Echo Verse
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- A flexible lyric form, usually in a small # of couplets w/ or w/o rhyme
- 1st used in various Middle Eastern literatures & later among the German romanticists & recently among American poets.
- William Barne’s “Woak Hill” & “In the Spring” are examples-Thomas Hardy’s poems “My Cicely” & “A Mother Mourns” resemble -.
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Ghazal
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- Brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, & emotion, creating a single, unified impression.
- The most frequently used poetic expression.
- Includes hymns, sonnets, songs, ballads, odes, elegies, ballades, rondels, & rondeaus.
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Lyric
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•A ballad composed by an author, as opposed to the anonymous folk ballad.
Literary Ballad
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•Thoughts are in 3 quatrains & a couplet.
| -abab cdcd efef gg
Shakespearian/English Sonnet
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•An English sonnet in which the 3 quatrains are linked by repeating the 2nd rhyme of 1 quatrain as the 1st rhyme of the succeeding quatrain.
-An interlocking rhyme scheme.
•Te Spenserian sonnet is 1.
Link Sonnet
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•A sonnet of the English type in that it has the thoughts arranged in 3 quatrains & a couplet but features an interlocking rhyme scheme of
abab bcbc cdcd ee.
•It was created by Edmund - & used in his rhyme sequence Amoretti.
•Thomas Hardy used it for "Her Reproach".
Spenserian Sonnet
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•A line of poetry that begins & ends w/ the same word.
Serpentine Verse
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•A stanza of 6 lines
Hexastitch
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•An 8 line stanza.
•Chiefly used to denote the 1st 8 lines of the Italian sonnet & rhyming
abbaabba.
Octave
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•The turn in thought that occurs @ the beginning of the sestet in the Italian sonnet.
•Sometimes occurs in the Shakespearean sonnet between the 12th & 13th lines.
•A - is routinely marked by the words "but", "yet", or "and yet" @ its beginning.
•The design of Hardy's "Hap is perspicuous:
Line 1: "If..."
Line 5: "Then..."
Line 9: "But not so..."
Volta
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•The six-line division @ Te end of an Italian sonnet, usually rhyming
cde cde or cd cd cd
Sestet
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•A 6 line stanza.
Sextain
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* The prevailing mood or tone of a literary work; particularly-but nut exclusively- when that mood is established impart by setting or landscape. It is also an emotional aura that helps to establish the reader's expectations & attitudes.
* Example is the somber mood established by the description of the prison door in the opening chapter of Hawthorne's -The Scarlet Letter-.
Atmosphere
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•A poem related to a country life, customarily having to do w/ young love.
•Anthologies sometimes use this general title for such pieces as "It | |
a Lover & His Lass" from Shakespeare's -As You Like It-.
•Thomas Hardy's -Time's Laughingstocks- (1909) includes 17 poems in a group called "A Set of - -".
Country Song
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•A sonnet combining the rhyme schemes of the English sonnet & the Italian sonnet, most often w/ an octave from the English & a sestet from the Italian.
•Ex: Thomas Hardy's "Hap":
{abab cdcd} {efeffe}
Octave Sestet
Anglo-Italian Sonnet
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* A prose narrative, usually long & complicated in plot dealing w/ rustic life & often containing interspersed songs.
* Examples exist from classical times through the Renaissance up to elements of - - in such works as Thomas Hardy's novel -Far From the Madding Crowd-, which contains a shepherd called Gabriel Oak & a few interspersed songs.
Pastoral Romance
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•A stanza of 3 lines.
Tristitch
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* A figure poem, written so that the form of the printed word suggests the subject matter.
* Ex: bOsOm
Carmen Figuratum
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* A long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures.
* Heroes important to the history of a nation or race.
* Deeds of great courage.
* Supernatural forces.
* Poet is objective.
Epic
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* A song.
| * Almost any simple poem intended to be sung.
Chanson
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* A poem that tells a story.
| * Ex: ballads, epics, metrical romances.
Narrative Poem
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•A form of light verse-concerns an actual person whose name makes up the first lines of a quatrain w/ a strict aabb rhyme scheme-but no regular rhythm or meter.
Clerihew
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* A song of lamentation.
| * A funeral dirge.
Coronach
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* A wailing song @ a funeral or in commemoration of death.
| * A short lyric of lamentation.
Dirge
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* Rude verse.
| * Any poorly executed attempt @ poetry.
Doggeral
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* A poem->through the speech of a character in a frantic situation.
* Character is speaking to an identifiable but silent listener.
Dramatic Monologue
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•A poem expressing grief, more intense & personal than in a complaint.
Lament
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•A lyric poem common in the Middle Ages & Renaissance in which the poem laments the unresponsiveness of a mistress, bemoans his unhappy lot in life, or regrets the sorry state of the world.
Complaint
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•Any extended fictional narrative, almost always in prose.
Novel
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•A term introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin to describe a spirit of - in literature, marked by fun, attention to the body, defiance of authority, variety, Heteroglossia, & play.
Carnivalesque
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* A feat of strength or virtuosity.
* In criticism-works that make outstanding demonstrations of skill.
* Most often implies technical virtuosity rather than literary strength.
Tour de Force
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* A short novel.
* A work of prose fiction of intermediates length (longer than a short story, shorter than a novel).
* Has the compact structure of the ss, w/ the greater development of characters & action of the novel.
* Ex: Melville's -Billy Budd-, Stevenson's -Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde-, James' -The Turn of the Screw-.
Novelette
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•A work issued in installments that end @ a point of great suspense.
Cliffhanger
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•A sustained & formal poem setting forth meditation, death or another solemn theme.
Elegy
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* A Muslim collection of scriptural writings.
* Believed to have been revealed to Muhammad from time to time over a period of years.
* Presents theology, moral teaching, liturgical directions & advice on religious conduct & ceremonials.
* The speaker is usually God.
Koran
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•Thoughts are arranged in an octave & a sestet.
-abbaabba {cdecde}
•Sestet is arranged w/ c, d, & e in any order, but w/o any couplets.
Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet
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* A poem consisting of 1 line.
| * Ex: A.R. Ammons' "Coward"
Monostitch
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* French verse form.
* Consists of 8 lines, the 1st 2 being repeated as the last 2 & the 1st line recurring also as the 4th.
* Has only 2 rhymes.
* Hard to write.
Triolet
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* A poem expressing religious emotion & generally intense to be sung by a Chorus.
* Very important in the Middle Ages.
* Thomas Hardy wrote 2 poems based on Latin -.
Hymn
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* A form of light verse that follows a definite pattern: 5 anapestic lines w/ the 1st, 2nd, & 5th consisting of 3 feet & rhyming; the 3rd & 4th lines consisting of 2 feet & rhyming.
* These have been written by the most distinguished modern poets.
* They include every possible theme w/ nothing being sacred to their humor.
Limerick
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* Generally, a rationally ordered poem of praise or blame, proceeding detail by detail.
* Specifically, in the form called - du corps feminin, an encomienda for one's beloved.
* In "Precious Five", W.H. Auden produced these addressed to the speaker's own body.
Blason
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* Lines in which both the grammatical structure & the sense reach completion.
* Absence of enjambment of run-on lines.
End-stopped Lines
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•A word or stem meaning "line".
Stitch
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•A stanza of 6 lines.
Sextain
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* Another word for stanza.
* To avoid fuzziness, some writers limit stanza to regular, recurrent, & usually rhymed subdivisions of a poem, leaving this word to cover irregular & unrhymed subdivisions.
Strophe
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* A recurrent grouping of 2 or more verse lines in terms of length, metrical form, & rhyme scheme.
* Division into these is sometimes made according to thought as well as form in which case this is a unit like a prose paragraph.
Stanza
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* A stanza of 3 lines in which each lines ends w/ the same rhyme.
* Or either of the 2 3-line groups forming the sestet of the Italian sonnet.
* Also applied to the 3-line stanza of terza rima.
Tercet/Terzetta/Terzetto/Triplet/
| Terzina
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•A group of 8 lines of verse.
Octastitch
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* The art & practice of writing verse.
| * Ex: accent, rhythm, meter, rhyme, stanza, sound devices, etc.
Versification
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* Originally French.
* A fixed 19-line form employing only 2 rhymes & repeating 2 of the lines according to a set pattern. Line 1 is also repeated as lines 6,12, & 18; Line 3 is repeated as lines 9, 15, & 19. The 1st & 3rd lines return as a rhymed couplet @ the end.
* Rhymes aba aba aba aba aba abaa
* Dylon Thomas' "Do Not So Gentle into That Good Night" is a great modern example.
Villanelle
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The principles of versification, particularly as they refer to rhyme, meter, rhythm, & stanza.
Prosody
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* A type of music originated in the West Indies. It is a ballad-like improvisation in African rhythms.
* frequently deals satirically w/ current topics.
Calypso
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* One of the most difficult &complex verse forms.
* 6 6-lined stanzas & a 3-lined envoy.
* Usually unrhymed, the effect of rhyme being taken over by an intricate, fixed pattern of repeated end-words.
* It has been practiced w/ success by W.H. Auden.
Sestina
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* A modification of the rondel.
* A simple poem of about 14 lines in which 1 line frequently recurs Ina refrain.
* May also mean the musical setting of a rondeau so that it may be sung or chanted as an accompaniment for a folk dance.
Roundelay
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* A French verse form, a variant of the rondeau.
* Consists of 14 or 13 lines, depending on whether the 2-lines refrain is kept @ the close or simply 1 line.
* Rhymes abba ababab baab
* Repetition of rhyme words is not allowed.
* Differs from rondeau in # of lines & the use if complete (rather than partial) lines for refrain.
* Chaucer sometimes used this as a stanza & not as a poem itself.
Rondel
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•A form o poetry having the same form as a haiku, but a different spirit, relying on humor or | | rather than conventions related to certain seasons.
Senryu
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* In a broad sense philosophical poetry.
* Commonly applied to the work of the 17th century writers called - Poets who retorted against the conventions of Elizabethan love poetry.
* Their tendency toward psychological analysis of love & religion, their liking of their use of this conceit, & the extremes to which sometimes carried their techniques frequently resulted in obscurity, roughness & strain.
* John Donne was the deknowledged leader.
Metaphysical Poetry
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* A decorative art in sculpture, painting, & architecture characterized by fantastic representations of human & animal forms often combined into formal distortions of the natural to the point of absurdity, ugliness, or caricature.
* Anything bizarre, incongruous, ugly, unnatural, fantastic, abnormal.
* Works containing characters who are physically or spiritually deformed or who person abnormal actions.
Grotesque
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* A poem of only 1 rhyme.
| * Examples are rare.
Monorhyme
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* 7-lines iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc (sometimes the 7th line is hexameter-an Alexandrine).
* Probably named so in honor of King James I.
* The only stanza used by all 3 poets customarily called the greatest in English-Chaucer, Shakespeare, & Milton.
Rhyme Royal
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* An extended & rigorous verbal exchange.
| * A boasting & insult match in verse.
Flyting
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•A song of praise or joy.
Paean
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* "Song of great deeds"
| * Early French epic.
Roman de Geste
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•A set French verse form, artificial but popular w/ many English poets.
•Consists of 15 lines, the 9th & 15th being a short refrain. Only 2 rhymes are allowed, aside from the refrain. The rhyme scheme is
aabba aabc aabbac. The lines most frequently consists of 8 syllables.
Rondeau
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* The carrying over of grammatical structure from 1 line to the next.
* The opposite of end-stopped lines.
* Also called enjambment.
Run-on Lines
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A short introductory poem @ the beginning of a long poem or a section of a long poem.
Prelude
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* The omission of part of a word.
* Most often accompanied by the omission of a final vowel preceding an initial vowel. Ex: "th' orient"
* Also between syllables of a single word. Ex: "ne'er"
Elision
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•Another name for "tail" or a short line found in certain verse forms.
Cauda
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•In poetry a variation in the metrical pattern by the substitution of a foot that differs from the basic rhythm of the poem or by the addition or deletion of unstressed syllables.
Modulation
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•Omission of material that Amy be necessary for full clarity.
Ex: "A friend in need is a friend indeed."
Eclipsis
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•The omission of 1 or more sounds from a word, as "even" for "evening" or "bod" for "body".
Apocope
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•A stanza of 4 lines.
Quatrain
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* The plural of the Arabic word for quatrain, hence a collection of 4-lined stanzas.
* Best known from Edward Fitzgerald's translation of -The - of Omar Khayyam-.
Rubáiyát
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* A section or division of a long poem.
| * Originally signified a section of a narrative poem of such length as to be sung by a minstrel in 1 singing.
Canto
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•A lyric about dawn or a morning serenade, a song of lovers parting @ dawn.
Aubade
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•Medieval, natural, primitive, wild, mystery.
Gothic
