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ballad

Four line stanzas usually rhyming ABCB with the first and third lines carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three.

common meter

a metrical pattern for hymns in which the stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately rhyming ABCB or ABAB

couplet

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

closed couplet

a pair of lines in which the end of the rhyme in the second line coincides with the end of the clause of sentence

Dactyl

a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight. In accentual verse, often used in English, it is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

double rhyme

if two of the syllables rhyme

dramatic monologue

a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events

end rhyme

rhymes that occur at the end of the poetic line

end-stop line

stopped lines-poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause or phrase)

enjambment

the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza