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- Stanza: A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.
- A stanza is a division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units separated by a space.
- A stanza is a regular grouping of the verse-lines in a poem, set off by a space in the printed text.
- The stanza is another way to group and to place emphasis upon certain thoughts or words.
- A stanza is a group within a poem which may have two or many lines.
- In the Sapphic stanza, three hendecasyllabics are followed by an "Adonic" line, made up of a dactyl and a trochee.
- This meter was used most often in the Sapphic stanza, named after the Greek poet Sappho, who wrote many of her poems in the form.
- The opening line is repeated at the end of tercets two and four; the final line of the first tercet concludes the third and fifth stanza.
- Dizain: a stanza or poem of ten lines.
- The pattern of rhyme in a stanza or poem is shown usually by using a different letter for each final sound.
- The poem consists of one stanza, and is in rhyme.
- Paradelle---The paradelle is a 4 stanza poem with a very strict line and word format.
- Rondelet - A short variation of the rondeau consisting generally of one 7-line stanza with two rhymes.
- The number of lines and stanzas was not fixed and each stanza had only two rhymes, one rhyme for the couplets and the other for the two-syllable lines.
- The stanza is six lines long and rhymes aaabab, with tetrameter a lines and dimeter b lines.
- Quintet or Quintain - A poem, unit or stanza of five lines of verse.
- Rhyme Royal - A stanza of seven lines of heroic or five-foot iambic verse, rhyming ababbcc.
- Burns stanza or meter: six-line stanza with the rhyme scheme aaabab (where a is a tetrameter line, and b is a dimeter line).
- The Italian sonnet has two quatrains and a sestet, or six-line stanza, such as abba, abba, cde, cde.
- Applied to a stanza, each successive line is longer by either a syllable or a metrical foot.
- For example "abab" indicates a four-line stanza in which the first and third lines rhyme, as do the second and fourth.
- Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry.
- It was a principle of stanza-formation that masculine and feminine rhymes had to alternate in the stanza.
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- Triplet: a three-syllable foot, or a three-line stanza, with a single rhyme.
- The couplet, for practical purposes, is the shortest stanza form, but is frequently joined with other couplets to form a poem with no stanzaic divisions.
- Canzone: hendecasyllabic lines in stanza form.
- In a ballade, the a, b, or c rhyme from one stanza carries over to all the other stanzas - in other words, the stanzas are linked in rhyme.
- Quatrain - A poem, unit or stanza of four lines of verse, usually with a rhyme scheme of abab or its variant, xbyb.
- There are only three rhymes in a stanza, arranged in a ababbcbcc rhyme scheme.
- Elegiac stanza: a quatrain with the rhyme scheme abab written in iambic pentameter.
- Petrachan: a fourteen-line poem with two sections, an octave (eight-line stanza rhyming abbaabba), and a sestet (six-line-stanza rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde).
- Long Meter - Quatrain stanza with iambic tetrameters, rhyming abab.
- So the second stanza's ending word pattern is 6-1-5-2-4-3.
- Write the words that are an example of internal rhyme in the second stanza of the poem.
- In the second stanza the speaker feels a stone in his sock and gets gum on his feet.
- The habbie stanza (or hobbie stanza) is a popular stanza among Scottish poets.
- The first notable poem written in this stanza was the "Lament for Habbie Simpson" by Robert Sempill of Beltrees.
- An example is Percy Bysshe Shelley's " To a Skylark," which uses trochaic trimeters for the first two lines of each stanza.
- The final two lines of each stanza act as a refrain which is known as a kharja.
- Each stanza is a quatrain of seven syllables.
- The poem (not the stanza) should end with the same first syllable, word, or line with which it begins.
- Ballad stanza: quatrain rhyming abcb and alternating four-stress and three-stress lines.
- The ballad stanza contains four lines, the first and third being unrhymed in iambic tetrameter, and the second and fourth rhymed in iambic trimeter.
- Now construct one stanza using a set of these rhymed words.
- A five line stanza in spondaic Hexameter, alternating with amphibrachs and amphimacers.
- The short variety consists of a stanza of four seven-syllable verses, known as the Tú Tuyê.t heptameter quatrain.
- No rhyme or refrain but the end-words of each line in the first stanza are repeated in the following stanzas in a special order.
- In the stanzas following the first, the first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated alternately as refrains.
- The six words that end each of the lines of the first stanza are repeated in a different order at the end of lines in each of the subsequent five stanzas.
- Add any other sound effects you can find in the stanza.
- Chain rhyme is the linking together of stanzas by carrying a rhyme over from one stanza to the next.
- Major poems in the stanza include Burns's To_a_Louse, Address to the Deil and Death and Doctor Hornbook.
- The first is the Pindaric Ode and is written in accentual-syllabic verse, the stanza length and rhyme scheme are determined by the poet.
- Heroic couplet A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.
- Ottava Rima - Originally Italian, a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, rhyming abababcc.
- A stanza consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter and a final alexandrine, rhymed ababbcbcc, first used by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene.
- In skaldic poetry, the dr--ttkv--tt stanza had eight lines, each having three "lifts" produced with alliteration or assonance.
- It is written with four quatrain stanzas with a rhyme scheme of a, b, a, b, for each stanza.
- The pattern of syllables per line is 5,5,2,5,5,2,5,5,2 and the rhyme scheme for each stanza is aabaabaab.
- Each individual Balassi stanza is 9 lines in length and has a syllable count of 6-6-7-6-6-7-6-6-7, the rhyme for each stanza is bbaccadda.
- It is a stanza of nine iambic lines, all of ten syllables except the last, which is an Alexandrine.
- The nine related ‘d’ sounds reinforce the predominance of this sound effect in the stanza.
- A stanza comprising of a ten syllable line alternating with a nine syllable line.
- Triolet: an eight-line stanza having just two rhymes and repeating the first line as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth.
- The second line of the first stanza is the subject of the poem, a proper noun (usually someone's name).
- Envoi or Envoy - A short final stanza of a poem, especially a ballade or sestina, serving as a summary or dedication -- like an author's postscript.
- The final stanza replaces the sonnet couplet with a typical villanelle tercet.
- SONNET A lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme.
- Canzone - A medieval Italian or Proven-al lyric poem of varying stanzaic form, usually with a concluding short stanza or envoi.
- Sestet: a six-line stanza, or the final six lines of a 14-line Italian or Petrarchan sonnet.
- Octave - A stanza of eight lines, especially the first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet.
- Stanza One: Four lines of Shakespearean sonnet (iambic pentameter rhymed abab).
- Simply move as a block your strong stanza and all the sestets that follow it (down to and not including the tercet).
- Stanza Three: Four lines of iambic pentameter blank verse, where the last line repeats the first line of Stanza One.
- The main units that are used are the line, the couplet, the strophe, the stanza, and the verse paragraph.
- One stanza consists of four lines; the first two lines are divided into two parts by a caesura after the fifth syllable.
- Strophe - In modern poetry, a stanza or rhythmic system of two or more lines arranged as a unit.
- Stanza of eight iambic pentameters followed by an Alexandrine ( iambic hexameter).
- The ninth line of a Spenserian stanza (See #66) is iambic hexameter and is referred to as an alexandrine.
- For example, they rarely wrote free verse, preferring rhyme and regular stanza patterns in much of their work.
- Stave - A verse, stanza or a metrical portion of a poem.
- Sometimes called "free verse," open form poetry does not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza.
- Cinquain - A five-line stanza of syllabic verse, the successive lines containing two, four, six, eight and two syllables.
- Cinquain - A stanza of five rhymed or unrhymed lines.
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