Forms of Verse: British and American |
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN accent alliteration alliterative anapest ancient Mariner Anglo-Saxon approximate rhyme beauty blank verse century cesura Chaucer CLASSICAL PROSODY Copyright critics dead death diction Donne doth E. E. Cummings effect end-stopping English verse essay example excerpt EXERCISE eyes feelings feet feminine rhyme foot four-stress free verse FRENCH FORMS hath heart iambic pentameter John Keats lady language light line length literary ballad Lord Randal mark masculine rhyme metaphor meter metre metrical pattern Milton minor-accent moon narrative night number of syllables passages passion pauses Petrarchan pleasure poem poetic poetry Pope popular ballad prose prosody quatrain reader repetition rhyme royal rhyme scheme rhythm Robert Frost scansion sestet Shakespeare Shakespearean sing sleep song sonnet soul stanza stressed strophe structure subject matter substitutions sweet term tetrameter thee Thomas thou unstressed syllables variant W. H. Auden WILLIAM wind words Wordsworth write written