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About Sonnets Types Shakesperean (English) Has 14 lines 3 groups of 4 lines

(quatrains) and a couplet (a two-line stanza that usually rhymes with an

end rhyme).Petrarchan (Italian)Has an octave and a sestet

Some Poetry Examples

Anapest - “Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house”

Trochee - “Double, double toil and trouble” Dactyl - “Take her up tenderly”

About Ballads

A story in a song. Examples include early poems that we learn as children.

Lyric Poems

A story told with the poet playing upon a lyre.

Example: Daffodils

Heroic Couplets

Firmly end-stopped and written in iambic pentameter.

Example :The IliadThe Odyssey

Couplet again means a two-line stanza that usually rhymes with an end-rhyme.

Dramatic Monologues vs Apostrophe

Dramatic Monologues

Poems that address another

person who remains silent.

Apostrophes A direct address of

someone or something that is not there.

More on Anapests:Looking at Feet

The anapest is a type of poetry foot consisting of two unstressed syllables and a stressed syllable.

•Twas the NIGHT is a single anapestic foot•Twas [unaccented] the [unaccented] NIGHT [accented]

or the following notation can be used:

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Further explanations:Meters and Feet

Meter is a comparatively regular rhythm in a poem, verse, or song. It is composed of syllables or units of sound. For example

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Syllables

A syllable is a unit of sound. For example, the word, flower has two syllables flo-wer

Syllables influence the rhythm of language and are composed of stressed (accented) and unstressed (unaccented) elements.

•Flo-wer: two syllables with first stressed and second unstressed -

The following notation is sometimes used: ¯ ˘

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