iambic pentameter
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Pentameter
5 measures in a line
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Rhythm
The pattern of emphasis created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
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meter
one measure of a line of poetry
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iamb
when there are two syllables per measure in a line of poetry, the first unstressed, the second stressed
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Sonnets
14 line poem, with no stanzas, about love- broken into 3 quatrains
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quatrain
paragraph of 4 lines in a sonnet, the first two quatrains discuss a problem, the last quatrains resolves it
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Couplet
At the end, a pair of rhyming lines
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rhyme scheme
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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Stressed syllable
Important part of the word
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unstressed
unimportant part of the word
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