E-LIT Poetry

iamb

0101

trochee

1010

anapest

001001

dactyl

100100

Cross rhyme

ABAB

Tail rhyme

AAB CCB

Embracing rhyme

ABBA

Chain Rhyme

ABA BCB

perfect rhyme

contain - maintain

Half rhyme

rain - mail

eye / sight rhyme

bear - hear

masculine rhyme

stressed end syllable

feminine rhyme

unstressed end syllable

triple rhyme

scenery - grenery

Internal rhyme

within a single line

stanza

thematic block

Couplet. Tercet, quatrain, quintet, sestet, septet, octet

English Sonnet

• 3 quatrains, 1 rhyming couplet

• ABBA CDDC EFFE GG

• 14 lines, volta line 13

• Key theme: love, bodily desire, more key themes (nature, time, poverty, …)

Italian Sonnet

• octet with embracing rhyme + sestet

• ABBA CDDC + EFEFEF / EFGEFG

• Volta: 9th line

• Key theme: unfulfilled love, idealized, body-mind-duality; mind above body, spiritual

Elegy

mourning

Conversation

addressed to close friend

Ode

celebration / admiration

Epic

narrative, lengthy, hero

Romance

narrative, adventures of idealized characters

Conversation

Addressed to close friend / family

Other Genres: lyric

• singular voice

• Expressed feelings

• typical format

Other Genres: Narrative

• long

• Linear & chronological story

• E.g. ballard

Other Genres: Dramatic

• multipple speakers

Communication Model

Author → speaker (1p)/ voice → implicit / explicit addressee → reader

Tropes

→ related to content

• Simile

• Metaphor

• ….

Schemes

→ related to form

• Repitition

• anaphora

• …