- Glossary of poetry terms
This is a
glossary ofpoetry terminology.Measures of verse
Types of metre
Below, "short/long" definitions of a
syllable ofclassical languages correspond to "unstressed/stressed" ofEnglish language .*
Amphibrach : short-long-short
* Amphimacer or cretic: long-short-long
*Anapaest or antidactylus: short-short-long
*Antibacchius: long-long-short
*Bacchius : short-long-long
* Choreus, choree same asTrochee : long-short
* Dactyl: long-short-short
*Iamb : short-long
*Molossus: long-long-long
* Pyrrhic or dibrach: short-short
*Spondee : long-long
* Tribrach: short-short-short
*Trochee : long-shortTetrasyllables
* tetrabrach or proceleusmatic: short-short-short-short
* quartus paeon: short-short-short-long
* tertius paeon: short-short-long-short
* minor ionic, or double iamb: short-short-long-long
* secundus paeon: short-long-short-short
* diamb: short-long-short-long
* antispast: short-long-long-short
* first epitrite: short-long-long-long
* primus paeon: long-short-short-short
*choriamb : long-short-short-long
* ditrochee: long-short-long-short
* second epitrite: long-short-long-long
* major ionic: long-long-short-short
* third epitrite: long-long-short-long
* fourth epitrite: long-long-long-short
* dispondee: long-long-long-longVerse forms
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Chant royal : Five stanzas of "ababccddedE" followed by either "ddedE" or "ccddedE". (The capital letters indicate a line repeated verbatim.)
*Cinquain : "ababb".
*Clerihew : "aabb".
*Couplet : "aa", but usually occurs as "aa bb cc dd ...".
*Enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme): "abba".
*Ghazal : "aa ba ca da ...".
* Limerick: "aabba".
*Monorhyme : "aaaaa...", an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic
*Ottava rima : "abababcc".
*Rhyme royal : "ababbcc".
*Rondelet : "AbAabbA".
*Rubaiyat : "aaba".
* Sapphics
**Petrarchan sonnet : "abba abba cde cde" or "abba abba cdc cdc".
**Shakespearean sonnet : "abab cdcd efef gg".
**Simple 4-line : "abcb"
** Spenserian sonnet: "abab bcbc cdcd ee".
**Onegin stanza s: "aBaBccDDeFFeGG" with the lowercase letters representing *Tanaga
*Spenserian stanza : "ababbcbcc".
*Tanaga : traditional Tagalog tanaga is aaaa
*Terza rima : "aba bcb cdc ...", ending on "yzy z" or "yzy zz".
* Triplet: "aaa", often repeating like the couplet.
*Villanelle : A1bA2 abA1 abA2 abA1 abA2 abA1A2, where A1 and A2 are lines repeated exactly which rhyme with the a lines.See also
: "Main list:
List of basic poetry topics "*
List of literary terms
*Literature
*Poet
*Poetry References and further reading
*
M. H. Abrams . "A Glossary of Literary Terms". Thomson-Wadsworth, 2005. ISBN 1413004563.
*Chris Baldick. "The Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms". Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. ISBN 0198608837.
*Chris Baldick. "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms". Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. ISBN 019280118X.
*Edwin Barton & G. A. Hudson. "Contemporary Guide To Literary Terms". Houghton-Mifflin, 2003. ISBN 0618341625.
*Mark Bauerlein. "Literary Criticism: An Autopsy". Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. ISBN 0812216253.
*Karl Beckson & Arthur Ganz. "Literary Terms: A Dictionary". Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. ISBN 0374521778.
*Peter Childs. "The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms". Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0415340179.
*J. A. Cuddon. "The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory". Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0140513639 .
*Dana Gioia. "The Longman Dictionary of Literary Terms: Vocabulary for the Informed Reader". Longman, 2005. ISBN 032133194X.
*Sharon Hamilton. "Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises". W. W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0393928373.
*William Harmon. "A Handbok to Literature". Prentice Hall, 2005. ISBN 0131344420.
*X. J. Kennedy, et al. "Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory". Longman, 2004. ISBN 0321202074.
*V. B. Leitch. "The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism". W. W. Norton, 2001. ISBN 0393974294.
*John Lennard , "The Poetry Handbook". Oxford Univ. Press, 1996, 2005. ISBN 0199265380.
*Frank Lentricchia & Thomas McLaughlin. "Critical Terms for Literary Study". Univ. of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN 0226472035.
*David Mikics. "A New Handbook of Literary Terms". Yale Univ. Press, 2007. ISBN 030010636X.
*Ross Murfin & S. M. Ray. "The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms". Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. ISBN 0312259107.
*John Peck & Martin Coyle. "Literary Terms and Criticism". Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0333962583.
*Edward Quinn. "A Dictionary of Literary And Thematic Terms". Checkmark Books, 2006. ISBN 0816062447.
*Lewis Turco. "The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship". Univ. Press of New England, 1999. ISBN 0874519551.
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