Poetry Terminology (Form and Structure)

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A narrative poem, often put to music
Ballad
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No rhyme scheme but a regular meter (Often iambic pentameter)
Blank Verse
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a poem about a dead person or thing
elegy
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No regular rhyme scheme or meter
Free Verse
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A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter
Heroic couplet
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A poem in praise of someone or something
ode
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A stanza with four lines
quatrain
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The order of words in a sentence
syntax
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No rhyme scheme but a regular meter (Often iambic pentameter)

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Blank Verse

Card 3

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a poem about a dead person or thing

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Card 4

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No regular rhyme scheme or meter

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Card 5

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A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter

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