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POETIC INTERPRETATION OF LIFE
Components of Poetry

Poems are a literary work written in stanzas and lines using rhythm (beat) to convey ideas and emotions.​ Sentence length, word placement and line groupings make up the structure and form of a poem. ​
BUT REALLY, WHAT IS POETRY?
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance

Setting the Poetic
​METER TO FLOW

Rhyme schemes are illustrated in coded letters of the alphabet, for example, ABAB. Lines that are assigned the same letter rhyme with each other., For example,, the first line and the third line rhyme with each other, and the second and the fourth line also rhyme with each other.

​TERMS TO KNOW FIRST
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Couplet: A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length.

Line: Unit of language into which a poem or play is divided.
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Foot: Unit of measure in a metrical line of poetry.

Metre is a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats.
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Octosyllable: Line consisting of 8 syllables.

Stanza: Grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation

Syllable: Part of a word that contains a single vowel sound and that is pronounced as a unit.

Stress: Emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others; the arrangement of stresses within a poem is the foundation of poetic rhythm.

POETRY BY THE NUMBERS


Alexandrine: A line of poetry that has 12 syllables.

Anapest: A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed).

Ballade: A type of poem, usually with three stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a shorter final stanza (or envoy) of four or five lines. All stanzas end with the same one-line refrain.

Couplet: Stanza of 2 lines; often, a pair of rhymed lines.

Cretic: Also known as amphimacer. A Greek and Latin metrical foot consisting of a short syllable enclosed by two long syllables

Dactyl: Foot consisting of a stress followed by 2 unstressed syllables.

Decasyllable: Line consisting of 10 syllables.

Dimeter: A line of verse composed of two feet.

Double dactyl: Consists of two quatrains, each with three double-dactyl lines followed by a shorter dactyl-spondee pair. The two spondees rhyme.

Fib: A six-line poem in which the number of syllables per line follow the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. The form was invented by Gregory K. Pincus.

Fourteener: A metrical line of 14 syllables (usually seven iambic feet).

Hendecasyllable: Line consisting of 11 syllables. typically a spondee or trochee, a choriamb, and two iambs, the second of which has an additional syllable at the end.

Heptameter: A line of poetry that has seven metrical feet.

Heroic couplet: A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.

Hexameter: A metrical line of six feet, most often dactylic, and found in Classical Latin or Greek poetry, including Homer’s Iliad.

Iamb: Foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stress.

Hexameter: Line consisting of 6 metrical feet.

Octave: Stanza of 8 lines.

Ottava rima: Originally an Italian stanza of eight 11-syllable lines, with a rhyme scheme of ABABABCC.

Pentameter: Line consisting of 5 metrical feet.

Poulter's measure: Couplets in which a 12-syllable iambic line (see Alexandrine) rhymes with a 14-syllable iambic line (see Fourteener).

Quatrain: Stanza of 4 lines.

Quintain: Stanza of 5 lines.

Septet: Stanza of 7 lines.

Sestet: Stanza of 6 lines.

Spondee: Foot consisting of 2 stressed syllables.

Tercet: Stanza or poem of 3 lines.

Tetrameter: Line consisting of 4 metrical feet.

Trochee: Foot consisting of a stress followed by an unstressed syllable.

Trimeter: A line of three metrical feet.

Triolet: An eight-line stanza having just two rhymes and repeating the first line as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth.

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