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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

Expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms

Lyric

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

Ballad

A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long(or stressed) syllable

Lamb

A person who write poems

Poet

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter

Blank Verse

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

Elegy

A basic structural component of a poem

Line

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme

Couplet

A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba

Limerick

In poetry, the repetition of the sound near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

Assonance

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse

Stanza

A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

Foot

Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

Verse

The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry and gives rhythm and regularity to poetry

Meter

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of the words

Alliteration

Two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line

Close rhyme

A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the adventures of heroic figures or the history of a nation

Epic

A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five

Haiku

A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus

Refrain

Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially at the ends of lines of poetry

Rhyme

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Onomatopoeia

A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words

Acrostic

A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer

Repetition

Verse writing that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter and rhyme

Poem