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Meter
A recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of a set length.
Rhythm
Following a specific type of meter. A poem's musicality.
A poetic foot
Usually made up of two syllables and sometimes three.
Iamb (Iambic)
A single foot made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Opposite of Trochee. 2 syllables in a foot

Trochee (Trochaic)
A foot made up of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Opposite of Iambic. 2 syllables in a foot.

Anapest (Anapestic)
A foot made up of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. 3 syllables in the foot.

Monometer
One foot
Dimeter
Two feet

Trimeter
Three feet

Tetrameter
Four feet

Pentameter
Five feet

Catalexis (catalectic)
An incomplete foot at the end of a line.
Acatalexis (acatalectic)
A complete foot at the end of a line.
Enjambment
When the sentence continues on the next line without punctuation

Ballad
A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas

Haiku
A 3 line poem about nature with a 5-7-5 syllable count

Elegy
A poem that remembers a person who has died

Sonnet
A 14 line poem about beauty, time, or love

Villanelle
a 19 line poem describing obsessions or an intense subject matter.

Free Verse
A poem that does not have any structure

Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line

End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

End stopped line
when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon
