Appendix:Glossary of poetry terms

Below is the glossary of poetry terminology.

Technical means

 * accent
 * accentual verse
 * aleatory, aleatory methods
 * alliteration
 * alliterative verse
 * anacrusis
 * anadiplosis
 * aposiopesis
 * apostrophe
 * assonance
 * caesura, cæsura
 * chain rhyme
 * consonance
 * dissonance
 * enjambment
 * foot
 * half rhyme
 * eye rhyme
 * kennings
 * onomatopoeia
 * rhyme
 * rhyme scheme
 * rhythm
 * sprung rhythm
 * stichomythia
 * syllabic verse

Tropes

 * metaphor
 * simile
 * irony
 * metonymy
 * synecdoche
 * ellipsis

Types of metre
Below, "short/long" definitions of a syllable of classical languages correspond to "unstressed/stressed" of English 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 or choree (same as trochee): 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-short

Tetrasyllables

 * 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-long

Types of line

 * Alexandrine
 * monometer
 * dimeter
 * trimeter
 * tetrameter
 * pentameter
 * hexameter
 * heptameter
 * octameter
 * Poulter's measure

Verse forms

 * aisling
 * acrostic
 * ballad
 * ballade royal
 * biolet: "ABbaBA".
 * blank verse
 * breton lai
 * chant royal: Five stanzas of "ababccddedE" followed by either "ddedE" or "ccddedE". (The capital letters indicate a line repeated verbatim.)
 * chastushka
 * cinquain: "ababb".
 * clerihew: "aabb".
 * couplet: "aa", but usually occurs as "aa bb cc dd ...".
 * double dactyl
 * dramatic poetry
 * elegy
 * enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme): "abba".
 * englyn
 * envoi
 * epic poetry
 * epigram
 * epyllion
 * free verse
 * ghazal
 * grook
 * haiku
 * heroic couplets
 * kimo
 * kyrielle
 * light Poetry
 * limerick: "aabba".
 * lyric
 * McWhirtle
 * monorhyme: "aaaaa...", an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic
 * monostich
 * narrative poetry
 * nonsense verse
 * ode
 * onegin stanza
 * ottava rima: "abababcc".
 * pantoum
 * paradelle
 * pantun
 * quatrain
 * quatorzain
 * rapping
 * renga
 * rhyme royal: "ababbcc".
 * rondeau
 * rondelet: "AbAabbA".
 * rubaiyat: "aaba".
 * sapphic stanza, sapphics
 * senryu
 * sestina
 * shichigon-zekku
 * sijo
 * song
 * sonnet
 * 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 stanzas: "aBaBccDDeFFeGG" with the lowercase letters representing * Tanaga
 * Spenserian stanza: "ababbcbcc".
 * Tanka
 * tanaga: traditional Tagalog tanaga is aaaa
 * telestich
 * tercet
 * terza rima: "aba bcb cdc ...", ending on "yzy z" or "yzy zz".
 * terzanelle
 * triolet
 * 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.
 * virelai ancien
 * virelai nouveau
 * waka

Periods, styles and movements
For movements see List of poetry groups and movements.
 * automatic poetry
 * Black Mountain
 * Chanson de geste
 * concrete poetry
 * cowboy poetry
 * digital poetry
 * epitaph
 * erasure poetry
 * folk poetry
 * found poetry
 * Imagism
 * libel
 * limerick poetry
 * lyric poetry
 * metaphysical poetry
 * mediaeval poetry
 * minnesinger
 * The Movement
 * narrative poetry
 * objectivism
 * Parnassian
 * pastoral
 * performance poetry
 * post-modernism
 * Romanticism
 * San Francisco Renaissance
 * sound poetry
 * symbolism
 * scryptology
 * troubadour
 * trouvère