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haiku	A Japanese-style poem in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables		la-poetry-forms
tanka	A Japanese poem of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables		la-poetry-forms
limerick	A funny five-line poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme		la-poetry-forms
sonnet	A 14-line poem, often in iambic pentameter		la-poetry-forms
Shakespearean sonnet	A sonnet with three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG		la-poetry-forms
Petrarchan sonnet	A sonnet with an octave and a sestet		la-poetry-forms
couplet	Two lines in a row that rhyme		la-poetry-forms
tercet	A stanza of three lines		la-poetry-forms
quatrain	A stanza of four lines		la-poetry-forms
cinquain	A five-line poem with a set pattern of words or syllables		la-poetry-forms
diamante	A diamond-shaped seven-line poem		la-poetry-forms
acrostic	A poem where the first letters of lines spell a word		la-poetry-forms
free verse	A poem without regular rhyme or meter		la-poetry-forms
blank verse	Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentameter		la-poetry-forms
ballad	A poem or song that tells a story		la-poetry-forms
epic	A long poem about a hero's deeds		la-poetry-forms
ode	A poem praising a person or thing		la-poetry-forms
elegy	A poem of mourning		la-poetry-forms
lyric poem	A short poem expressing feelings		la-poetry-forms
narrative poem	A poem that tells a story		la-poetry-forms
concrete poem	A poem shaped like its subject		la-poetry-forms
shape poem	Another name for a concrete poem		la-poetry-forms
villanelle	A 19-line poem with two repeating refrains		la-poetry-forms
sestina	A 39-line poem with six repeated end words		la-poetry-forms
clerihew	A funny four-line poem about a person		la-poetry-forms
epigram	A short, witty saying in verse		la-poetry-forms
nursery rhyme	A short traditional rhyme for children		la-poetry-forms
stanza	A group of lines in a poem		la-poetry-forms
verse	One line of a poem, or a stanza		la-poetry-forms
line break	Where a line of a poem ends		la-poetry-forms
rhyme	Matching end sounds in words		la-poetry-forms
rhyme scheme	The pattern of rhymes at the end of lines		la-poetry-forms
end rhyme	Rhyme at the ends of lines		la-poetry-forms
internal rhyme	Rhyme within a line		la-poetry-forms
slant rhyme	Words that almost rhyme		la-poetry-forms
rhythm	The beat of the words		la-poetry-forms
meter	The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables		la-poetry-forms
foot	A unit of meter		la-poetry-forms
iamb	A foot with an unstressed then a stressed syllable		la-poetry-forms
trochee	A foot with a stressed then an unstressed syllable		la-poetry-forms
anapest	A foot with two unstressed then one stressed syllable		la-poetry-forms
dactyl	A foot with one stressed then two unstressed syllables		la-poetry-forms
pentameter	A line with five feet		la-poetry-forms
tetrameter	A line with four feet		la-poetry-forms
refrain	A line or phrase repeated in a poem or song		la-poetry-forms
speaker	The voice that talks in a poem		la-poetry-forms
enjambment	A sentence running over a line break		la-poetry-forms
caesura	A pause inside a line		la-poetry-forms
alliteration	Repeating beginning sounds		la-poetry-forms
onomatopoeia	Words that sound like what they name		la-poetry-forms
imagery	Words that create pictures in the mind		la-poetry-forms
stanza break	A blank line between stanzas		la-poetry-forms
volta	The turn in thought in a sonnet		la-poetry-forms
rhyme couplet	A pair of rhyming lines		la-poetry-forms
envelope rhyme	ABBA rhyme pattern		la-poetry-forms
alexandrine	A line of six iambic feet		la-poetry-forms
sprung rhythm	Rhythm based on counting stressed syllables only		la-poetry-forms
slam poetry	A poem performed aloud in a competition style		la-poetry-forms
spoken word	Poetry written to be performed		la-poetry-forms
found poem	A poem made from words found elsewhere		la-poetry-forms
list poem	A poem made as a list		la-poetry-forms
pantoum	A poem with repeating lines in a set pattern		la-poetry-forms
ghazal	A poem of couplets with a repeated word at the end of the second line		la-poetry-forms