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A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus
Refrain
Expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms
Lyric
A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer
Repetition
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Onomatopoeia
Verse writing that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter and rhyme
Poem
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme
Couplet
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
Elegy
The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of the words
Alliteration
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry and gives rhythm and regularity to poetry
Meter
A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
Foot
Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
Blank Verse
Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
Verse
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse
Stanza
A person who write poems
Poet
A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words
Acrostic
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five
Haiku
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
Ballad
Two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line
Close rhyme
In poetry, the repetition of the sound near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
Assonance
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
Internal Rhyme
A basic structural component of a poem
Line
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially at the ends of lines of poetry
Rhyme
A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long(or stressed) syllable
Lamb
A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the adventures of heroic figures or the history of a nation
Epic
A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba
Limerick


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