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Tercet Stanza def

A stanza that consists of three lines rhyming together or

connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups

of three lines.

Tercet Stanza ex

From “Second Satire” Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42)

My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,

They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse,

That for because their livelihood was but so thin

Would needs go seek her townish sister’s house.

She thought herself endured too much pain:

The stormy blasts her cave so sore did souse...

Sestet def

A stanza consisting of six lines.

Sestet def

Behind Me—dips Eternity—

Before Me—Immortality—

Myself—the Term between—

Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray,

Dissolving into Dawn away,

Before the West begin—

Octave def

A stanza consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter

Octave ex

When I consider how my light is spent

Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,

And that one Talent which is death to hide

Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent

To serve therewith my Maker, and present

My true account, lest He returning chide,

"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"

I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent

Sestina def

A poetic form consisting of thirty-nine lines in six sestets and a final tercet called the envoi, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines, but in a different order. The envoi uses the six words again-three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.

Sestina ex

Frozen Wings

Written by: Alessia Jay

Broken Rhyme def

A rhyme in which one of the rhyming elements is

divided by a break or a pause between two words

Broken Rhyme ex

as in

Lord Byron’s rhyming “…Attic; all… “with

“mathematical’”

Internal Rhyme def

a rhyme between a word within a line and another either at

the end of the same line or within another line

Internal Rhyme ex

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and

weary

Villanelle def

The highly structured _______ is a nineteen-line poem with

two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of

five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of

the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of

the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain

serves as the poem’s two concluding lines.

Villanelle ex

Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night”

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Elegy def

A formal poem written in lyrical language to

commemorate or honor one who has died. ____ may

also refer to a serious meditative poem produced to

express the speaker’s melancholy thoughts.

Elegy ex

From “An Elegy on the Death of John Keats”

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

I

I weep for Adonais—he is dead!

Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears

Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!

And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years

To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers,

And teach them thine own sorrow, say: "With me

Died Adonais; till the Future dares

Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be

An echo and a light unto eternity!"

Caesura def

A pause in a line of poetry. It can occur anywhere within

a line and may not be indicated by punctuation.

_______ are indicated by a double vertical line (ll).

Three types of _______ include: Initial (appears at the

beginning, Medial (appears in the middle), and Terminal

(appears near the end)

Caesura ex

To be or not to be, (ll) that is the question-William

Shakespeare-Hamlet

Ballad def

A _______ is a narrative poem with simple stanzas and simple

rhyme scheme that often contains repetition, dialogue, and

repeated refrain (i.e. a recurrent phrase or series of phrases

such as “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore’”). _____ are highly

musical poems as many were originally meant to be sung.

Traditional ______ subjects include: murder, love, revenge,

shipwrecks, and the supernatural.

Ballad ex

From “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”-Samuel Taylor

Coleridge

The ice was here,

the ice was there

The ice was all around:

It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,

Like noises in the swound!

Ode def

A long formal poem written in three parts: The strophe and the

antistrophe have a similar rhyme scheme and metrical

structure, but they often view the subject of the poem from

different perspectives. The epode has a different scheme and

structure and often resolves the issue at hand through

synthesis and critical thinking. ______are often quite meditative

in that they deeply analyze an object, person, or idea.

Ode ex

from “____ on a Grecian Urn”-John Keats

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

Sylvan historian, who canst thus express

A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:

What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape

Of deities or mortals, or of both,

In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?

What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?

What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?

What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

Enjambment def

In simple words, it is the

running on of a sense from one couplet or line to the next without a

major pause or syntactical break.

Enjambment ex

“April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.” (The Waste Land by T.S Eliot)

End-Stopped def

A line of poetry that comes to a grammatical conclusion

at its termination. The full meaning or the line seems

complete.

End-Stopped ex

From “A Poison Tree”-William Blake

I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

Malapropism def

A type of pun that employs the use of a ridiculous or

inappropriate word in place of a similar sounding one.

Malapropism ex

Benvolio intentionally replaces "invite" with "indite" in order

to mock the Nurse, saying, "She will indite him to some supper"

(2.4.131). The Nurse unintentionally uses this dramatic device

as well.

Non Sequitur def

Two ideas presented together as if they are connected

in some way when in fact they are not.

Non Sequitur ex

“I don’t make much money, and I’m unhappy. Rich people MUST BE happy.”