English Fireside Poets

Free Verse

poetry lacking traditional rhyme, meter, and rhythm

Anaphora

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Slant/Near Rhyme

lines that almost rhyme

Ballad Stanza

a four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet.

Trochaic

Stressed, unstressed

Iambic

Unstressed, stressed

Ars Poetica

A poem about the art of poetry

Loafe

Verb. to be lazy, rest, relax; avoiding activity

Creeds

N. a system of Christian or other religious belief; a faith

Abeyance

Noun. a state of temporary disuse or suspension

Distillation

N. The action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating cooling

Eddies

Verb: move in a circular way (mostly pertaining to liquids and gasses)

Boughs

Noun: a main branch of a tree

Abase

Verb. to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade 

Clipper

Noun. An instrument for cutting or trimming small pieces off; A sailor

Chef d’oeuvre

N. Masterpiece

Pismire

N. An ant

Nigh

Verb, To go, come, or draw near

Yawp

Noun - a harsh or hoarse cry for help

Effuse

V. Give off (liquid, light, smell or quality

Bequeath

V. To make a formal assignation of property of which one is assessed to a person