According to Robin Skelton, the most common rhyme scheme is iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter.īlank verse: A form that lends itself well to a meditative voice, blank verse is written in iambic pentameter lines that do not rhyme.Ĭatalectic: An incomplete line of metrical poetry in which the last syllable or foot is dropped.Ĭh’i-Yen-Shih: In this Chinese pattern, each line contains seven monosyllabic words with a caesura after each fourth word.
The first and third lines contain eight syllables, while the second and fourth lines contain six. Abecedarian: A poem in which the first letter of each line follows the alphabet down the page. There are no restrictions on meter or rhyme.Ībstract words: Idea words such as “dream,” “love,” or “curiosity” that one cannot touch physically and experience directly through the five senses.Īlliteration: In a line of poetry, a series of sounds consonants make at the beginning of or in the middle of words.Īllusion: An indirect reference made to something else.Īnapest: ˘ ˘ ΄ Two light stresses followed by a heavy stress.Īubade: A poem about the morning or dawn.īallad: A poem written in quatrains and A B C B rhyme.
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