This is a glossary of poetry. This is a glossary of poetry terms.

Basic composition

* Accent **

Vedic accent The pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, or Vedic accent for brevity, is traditionally divided by Sanskrit grammarians into three qualities, ''udātta'' उदात्त "raised" (acute accent, high pitch), ''anudātta'' अनुदात्त "not ...

Cadence In Western musical theory, a cadence (Latin ''cadentia'', "a falling") is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of full or partial resolution, especially in music of the 16th century onwards.Don Michael Randel (199 ...

: the patterning of rhythm in poetry, or natural speech, without a distinct meter. * Line: a unit into which a poem is divided. ** Line break: the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. *

Metre The metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) (from the French unit , from the Greek noun , "measure"), symbol m, is the primary unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), though its prefi ...

(or meter): the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Metres are influenced by syllables and their 'weight'. *

Metrical foot The foot is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry, including English accentual-syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Th ...

(aka poetic foot): the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry. **

Arsis and thesis In music and prosody, arsis (; plural arses, ) and thesis (; plural theses, ) are respectively the stronger and weaker parts of a musical measure or poetic foot. However, because of contradictions in the original definitions, writers use these ...

* Prosody (poetry), Prosody: the principles of metrical structure in poetry. * Syllable weight and stress: Syllable weight, weight refers to the duration of a syllable, which can be defined by the Vowel length, length of a vowel; whereas Stressed syllable, stress refers to a syllable uttered in a higher pitch—or with greater emphasis—than others. ** Stressed or long syllable (Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek: ''longum''; notation: Long-foot-meter

): a heavy syllable ** Unstressed or short syllable (Ancient Greek: ''brevis''; notation: '' Short-foot-meter

''): a light syllable * Stanza: a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem. (cf. ''Verse–chorus form, verse'' in music.) * Verse (poetry), Verse: formally, a single Metre (poetry), metrical line. (Not to be confused with Verse (music), musical verse.) ** Gatha, ''Gāthā'' ** Verse paragraph: a group of verse lines that make up a single rhetorical unit

Other parts

* Anceps: a position in a metrical pattern that can be filled by either a long or a short syllable. * Caesura: a stop or pause in a metrical line, typically marked by punctuation. * Canto: a long subsection of a long narrative poem such as an epic. * End rhyme (aka tail rhyme): a rhyme occurring in the terminating word or syllable of one line in a poem with that of another line, as opposed to internal rhyme. * End-stopping, End-stopping line * Enjambment: incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation. * Epigraph (literature), Epigraph: a quotation from another literary work that is placed under the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem. * Hemistich: a half of a line of verse. * Internal rhyme: a rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. ** Off-centered rhyme: a rhyme that occurs in an unexpected place in a given line. * Refrain: repeated lines in a poem. * Strophe: the first section of a choral ode

Metrical feet

A metrical foot (aka poetic foot) is the basic repeating rhythmic unit that forms part of a line of verse in most Indo-European traditions of poetry. *Monosyllable *Disyllable: metrical foot consisting of 2 syllables. **Iamb (poetry), Iamb (aka iambus): short-long ** Trochee (aka choreus or choree): long-short ** Spondee: long-long ** Pyrrhic (verse metre), Pyrrhic (aka dibrach): short-short * Trisyllable: metrical foot consisting of 3 syllables. **Dactycl (poetry), Dactyl: long-short-short ** Anapaest (aka antidactylus): short-short-long. (Example: “The Destruction of Sennacherib” by Lord Byron.) ** Amphibrach: short-long-short ** Cretic (aka amphimacer): long-short-long. (Example: modern-day uses can typically be found in expressions like "In a while, crocodile;" as well as in Slogan, slogans and advertising.) **Molossus (poetry), Molossus: long-long-long ** Trcibrach (poetry), Tribrach: short-short-short **Bacchius: short-long-long **Antibacchius: long-long-short *Tetrasyllable: metrical foot consisting of 4 syllables. ** Tetrabrach (aka proceleusmatic): short-short-short-short ** Dispondee: long-long-long-long **Paeon (prosody), Paeon: a metrical foot of 1 long syllable and 3 short syllables in any order. ***Primus paeon: long-short-short-short ***Secundus paeon: short-long-short-short ***Tertius paeon: short-short-long-short ***Quartus paeon (prosody), paeon: short-short-short-long **Epitrite: a metrical foot consisting of 3 long syllables and 1 short syllable. ***First epitrite: short-long-long-long *** Second epitrite: long-short-long-long *** Third epitrite: long-long-short-long *** Fourth epitrite: long-long-long-short **Ionic meter, Ionic: a metrical foot consisting of 2 short and 2 long syllables ***Minor ionic (aka double iamb): short-short-long-long ***Major ionic: long-long-short-short ***Diamb: short-long-short-long (i.e., two iambs) ***Ditrochee: long-short-long-short (i.e., two trochees) ***Antispast: short-long-long-short ***Choriamb: long-short-short-long (i.e., a trochee/choree alternating with an iamb) *Hexasyllable: metrical foot consisting of 6 syllables. **Double dactyl *Octosyllable: metrical foot consisting of 8 syllables. *Decasyllable: metrical foot consisting of 10 syllables. *Hendecasyllable: metrical foot consisting of 11 syllables. *Dodecasyllable: metrical foot consisting of 12 syllables.

Forms

Verse meters

In a poetic composition, a Verse (poetry), verse is formally a single Metre (poetry), metrical Line (poetry), line. * Monometer: a line of verse with just 1 metrical foot. * Dimeter: a line of verse with 2 metrical feet. * Trimeter: a line of verse with 3 metrical feet. * Tetrameter: a line of verse with 4 metrical feet. * Hexameter: a line of verse with 6 metrical feet. * Heptameter: a line of verse with 7 metrical feet. * Octameter: a line of verse with 8 metrical feet. * Dactylic meter: any meter based on the Dactyl (poetry), dactyl as its primary rhythmic unit. ** Dactylic tetrameter ** Dactylic pentameter ** Dactylic hexameter *** Golden line * Iambic meter: any meter based on the Iamb (poetry), iamb as its primary rhythmic unit. ** Alexandrine (iambic hexameter): a 12-syllable iambic line adapted from French heroic verse. Example: the last line of each stanza in “The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy. *** Czech alexandrine *** French alexandrine *** Polish alexandrine ** Fourteener (poetry), Fourteener (iambic heptameter): line consisting of 7 iambic feet (14 syllables) ** Galliambic verse ** Iambic pentameter: line consisting of 5 iambic feet (10 syllables) ** Iambic tetrameter: line consisting of 4 iambic feet (8 syllables) * Trochaic meter: any meter based on the trochee as its primary rhythmic unit. ** Trochaic tetrameter ** Trochaic octameter ** Trochaic septenarius * Arabic prosody, Arabic poetic meters: ** Basīṭ ** Hazaj meter, Hazaj ** Kamil (metre), Kāmil ** Mutaqārib ** Madīd (metre), Madīd ** Rajaz (prosody), Rajaz ** Tawil, Tawīl ** Wāfir * Anapestic tetrameter (aka reverse dactyl): a poetic meter that has 4 Anapaest, anapestic metres per line. * Common metre: a quatrain that rhymes "abab" and alternates 4-stress and 3-stress iambic lines. This is the meter used in hymns and ballads. * Indian poetic meters: ** Chhand (poetry), Chhand ** Kannada meter (poetry), Kannada meter ** Mandakranta metre, Mandakranta ** Mātrika metre, Mātrika ** Ovi (poetry), Ovi ** Triveni (poetry), Triveni ** Sanskrit meter ** Tamil prosody, Tamil meter ** Vedic meter *** Tristubh, Triṣṭubh: a Vedic meter of 44 syllables, or any hymn composed in this meter * Long metre (aka long measure): a poetic metre consisting of quatrains (4-line stanzas) in iambic tetrameter with the rhyme pattern "abab". * Persian metres * Quantitative meter: the dominant metrical system in which the rhythm depends on the length of time it takes to utter a line rather than on the number of stresses. * Traditional Welsh poetic metres, Traditional Welsh

Types of verse

* Accentual verse ** Accentual-syllabic verse * Acatalexis * Adonic * Aeolic verse, Aeolic ** Glyconic: most basic form of aeolic verse. * Alcmanian verse, Alcmanian * Archilochian * Asclepiad (poetry), Asclepiad * Choliamb * Dochmiac * Doggerel: a bad verse, traditionally characterized by Cliché, clichés, clumsiness, and irregular meter. * Free verse and ''vers libre'': an open form of poetry that does not use consistent of meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern, therefore tending to follow the rhythm of natural speech. * Knittelvers * Heroic verse ** Riding rhyme: an early form of heroic verse derived from the rhythm of the poetry in parts of ''The Canterbury Tales'' depicting the pilgrims as they rode along. * Leonine verse * McWhirtle * Neo-Miltonic syllabics * Political verse (aka decapentasyllabic verse): iambic verse of 15 syllables. * Saturnian (poetry), Saturnian * Anuṣṭubh: a quatrain with each line (called a ''pāda'', or 'foot') having 8 syllables. ** Shloka * Triadic-line poetry, Triadic-line

Verse forms

(A capital letter in any Rhyme scheme, rhyme schemes below indicates a line that is repeated verbatim.) *Blank verse: non-rhyming iambic pentameter (10-syllable line). It is the predominant rhythm of traditional English dramatic and epic poetry, as it is considered the closest to English speech patterns. Examples: "Paradise Lost" by John Milton and “Sunday Morning (poem), Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens. *Chant royal: five stanzas of "ababccddedE" followed by either "ddedE" or "ccddedE." *'a Gra' Reformata': ten stanzas of ABA CD ABA CD ABA CD ABA CD ABA CD ABAC. Following the rhyme scheme of the Villanelle, but with 5 extra couplets just after each tercet. * Cinquain: "ababb". * Clerihew: "aabb". * Enclosed rhyme (aka enclosing rhyme): "abba". * Ghazal: "aa ba ca da ..." *Kural (poetic form), Kural: Tamil verse form *Limerick (poetry), Limerick: "aabba". * Monorhyme: an identical rhyme on every line, common in Latin and Arabic. ("aaaaa...") * Rondelet: "AbAabbA". * Ruba'i, Rubaiyat: "aaba". * Sapphic stanza, Sapphics * Seguidilla (poetry), Seguidilla: Spanish-origin poem with seven syllable-counted lines, rhyming the second & fourth, and the fifth & seventh lines ("abcbded") ** Petrarchan sonnet: "abba abba cde cde" or "abba abba cdc cdc". *Sestina: a complex French verse form, usually unrhymed, consisting of 6 stanzas of 6 lines each and a 3-line envoi. *Shadorma: an allegedly Spanish six-line stanza, syllable-count restricted form, 3/5/3/3/7/5 ** Shakespearean sonnet: "abab cdcd efef gg". ** Simple 4-line: "abcb" ** Sonnet#Spenserian sonnet, Spenserian sonnet: "abab bcbc cdcd ee". ** Onegin stanzas: "" with lowercase letters representing assonance, assonant rhymes and the uppercase representing end-rhymes. * Sprung rhythm: a poetic rhythm designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. *Tanaga: traditional Tagalog language, Tagalog tanaga is "aaaa" * Terza rima: "aba bcb cdc ...", ending on "yzy z" or "yzy zz/"

Types of rhyming

A rhyme is the repetition of Syllable, syllables, typically found at the end of a verse line. * Assonance (aka vowel rhyme): the repetition of Vowel sound, vowel sounds without repeating consonants. * Broken rhyme: a type of enjambment producing a rhyme by dividing a word at the line break of a poem to make a rhyme with the end word of another line * Catalectic ** Acephalous line * Chiasmus: repetition of any group of verse elements (including rhyme and grammatical structure) in reverse order. * Literary consonance, Consonance: the repetition of identical or similar Consonant, consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different ** Alliteration: the repetition of initial Stress (linguistics), stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. * Cross rhyme * Holorime: identical pronunciation of different lines; in other words, when two entire lines have the same sound * Imperfect rhyme (aka half or near rhyme) * Monorhyme * Pararhyme * Perfect rhyme (aka full or exact rhyme) * Syllable rhyme, Syllabic

Types of stanza

A stanza is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem. (cf. Verse (popular music), ''verse'' in music.) * Alcaic stanza, Alcaic: a 4-line stanza invented by the Classical Greek poet Alcaeus of Mytilene, Alcaeus that uses a specific syllabic count per line and a predominantly Dactyl (poetry), dactylic meter. * Ballad stanza, Ballad * Biolet * Burns stanza, Burns * Chaubola * Cinquain * Couplet: two successive rhyming lines ("aa"), usually of the same length (usually re-occurring as "aa bb cc dd ..."). ** Doha (poetry), Doha ** Heroic couplet: written in iambic pentameter. ** Poulter's measure: couplets in which a 12-syllable iambic line rhymes with a 14-syllable iambic line. * Envoi (or envoy): the brief stanza that ends French poetic forms such as the Ballade (forme fixe), ballade or sestina. * Ghazal * Octave (poetry), Octave: an 8-line stanza or poem. * Ottava rima: an Italian stanza of eight 11-syllable lines, with a rhyme scheme of "abababcc." * Quatorzain * Quatrain: a 4-line poem or stanza * Quintain (poetry), Quintain * Rhyme royal: a stanza of seven 10-syllable lines, rhyming "ababbcc." * Sapphic stanza, Sapphic * Sestain * Sestet: a 6-line stanza ** Onegin stanza * Spenserian stanza, Spenserian: consists of 9 lines in total—8 iambic-pentameter lines and a final alexandrine—with a rhyme scheme of "ababbcbcc." * Tercet (or triplet): a unit of three lines, rhymed ("aaa") or unrhymed, often repeating like the couplet. * Triolet: an 8-line stanza with only two rhymes, repeating the 1st line as the 4th and 7th lines, and the 2nd line as the 8th ("ABaAabAB"). * Terza rima: an Italian stanzaic form consisting of tercets with interwoven rhymes ("aba bcb ded efe...").

Genres

Genres by structure

*Formes fixes, Fixed form (French: ''forme fixe''): the three 14th- and 15th-century French poetic forms: **Ballade (forme fixe), Ballade: three 8-line stanzas ("ababbcbC") and a 4-line Envoy (poetry), envoi ("bcbC"). The last line of the first stanza is repeated verbatim at the end of subsequent stanzas and the envoi. Example: Algernon Charles Swinburne’s translation “Ballade des pendus, Ballade des Pendus” by François Villon. **Rondeau (forme fixe), Rondeau: a mainly octosyllabic poem consisting of between 10 and 15 lines and 3 stanzas. It has only 2 rhymes, with the opening words used twice as an un-rhyming refrain at the end of the 2nd and 3rd stanzas. **Virelai * Found poetry, Found poem: a prose text or texts reshaped by a poet into quasi-metrical lines. * Haiku: a type of short poem, originally from Japan, consisting of three lines in a 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern. ** Haiku in English, English-language haiku: an unrhymed tercet poem in the haiku style. * Lekythion: a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse. * Landay (poetry), Landay: a form of Afghani folk poetry that is composed as a couplet of 22 syllables. * Mukhammas * Pantoum: a Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets comprising a series of quatrains, with the 2nd and 4th lines of each quatrain repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next. The 2nd and 4th lines of the final stanza repeat the 1st and 3rd lines of the first stanza. * Pastiche * Prose poetry, Prose: a prose composition that is not broken into verse lines, instead expressing other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and figures of speech. * Rondel (poem), Rondel (or roundel): a poem of 11 to 14 lines consisting of 2 rhymes and the repetition of the first 2 lines in the middle of the poem and at its end. * Sonnet: a poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes; in English, they typically have 10 syllables per line. ** Caudate sonnet ** Crown of sonnets (aka ''sonnet redoublé'') ** Curtal sonnet ** Petrarchan sonnet, Petrarchan (or Italian): traditionally follows the rhyme scheme "abba, abba, cdecde"; a common variation of the end is "cdcdcd", especially within the final 6 lines ** Shakespeare's sonnets, Shakespearean (or English): follows the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg, introducing a third quatrain (grouping of four lines), a final couplet, and a greater amount of variety with regard to rhyme than is usually found in its Italian predecessors. By convention, sonnets in English typically use iambic pentameter, while in the Romance languages, the hendecasyllable and Alexandrine are the most widely used meters. ** Sonnet sequence ** Spenserian sonnet * Sijo * Stichic: a poem composed of lines of the same approximate meter and length, not broken into stanzas. * Syllabic verse, Syllabic: a poem whose meter is determined by the total number of syllables per line, rather than the number of stresses. * Tanka: a Japanese form of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables—31 in all. * Villanelle: a French verse form consisting of five 3-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas.

Genre by form/presentation

* Abecedarian hymn, Abecedarian: a poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet. * Acrostic poem, Acrostic: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. Example: “A boat beneath a sunny sky, A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll. * Concrete poetry, Concrete (aka pattern): a written poem or verse whose lines are arranged as a shape/visual image, usually of the topic. * Slam poet, Slam * Sound poetry, Sound * Spoken word poet, Spoken-word * Verbless poetry: a poem without verbs

Thematic genres

* Ars Poetica: a poem that explains the 'art of poetry', or a meditation on poetry using the form and techniques of a poem. * Aubade: a love poem welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. Example: “The Sun Rising (poem), The Sun Rising” by John Donne. * Deep image * Didactic poetry, Didactic * Dramatic monologue * Epithalamium (aka epithalamion): a nuptial poem in honour of the bride and bridegroom. * Ecopoetry * Ekphrasis: a poem that vividly describes a scene or work of art. * Elliptical poetry, Elliptical * Epigram * Folk poetry, Folk ** Folk ballad * Gnomic poetry, Gnomic: a poems laced with Proverb, proverbs, Aphorism, aphorisms, or maxims. * Hymn: a poem praising God or the divine (often sung). * Lament: any poem expressing deep grief, usually at a death or some other loss. ** Dirge ** Elegy: a poem of lament, praise, and consolation, usually formal and sustained, over the death of a particular person. Example: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray. * Light poetry, Light: whimsical poems ** Limerick (poetry), Limerick ** Nonsense verse, Nonsense ** Double dactyl * Lyric poetry, Lyric ** Canzone: a lyric poem originating in medieval Italy and France and usually consisting of Hendecasyllable, hendecasyllabic lines with End rhyme, end-rhyme. ** Epithalamium ** Madrigal (poetry), Madrigal: a song or short lyric poem intended for multiple singers. ** Ode: a formal lyric poem that addresses, and typically celebrates, a person, place, thing, or idea. *** Horatian Ode *** Palinode: an ode that retracts or recants what the poet wrote in a previous poem. *** Pindaric Ode *** Sapphic ode ** Stev: a form of Norwegian folk song consisting of quatrain lyric stanzas. * Meditative poetry, Meditative * Narrative poetry, Narrative ** Ballad: a popular narrative song passed down orally. In English, it typically follows a form of rhymed ("abcb") Quatrain, quatrains alternating 4-stress and 3-stress lines. *** Folk ballad: unknown origin, recounting tragic, comic, or heroic stories with emphasis on a central dramatic event. Examples: "Barbara Allen (song), Barbara Allen" and "John Henry (song), John Henry" *** Literary ballad: poems adapting the conventions of folk ballads, beginning in the Renaissance. Examples: “La Belle Dame sans Merci” by John Keats and “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. ** Epic poetry, Epic (or epos): an extended narrative poem, typically expressing heroic themes. *** Mock-epic: a poem that plays with the conventions of the epic to comment on a topic satirically. ** Epyllion: a brief narrative work written in dactylic hexameter, commonly dealing with mythological themes and characterized by vivid description and allusion. ** Romance (poetry), Romance * Occasional poetry, Occasional: a poem written to describe or comment on a particular event. * Panegyric: a poem of great praise. * Pastoral poem, Pastoral ** Eclogue: a pastoral poem usually containing dialogue between Shepherd, shepherds. ** Georgic mode, Georgic * Recusatio: a poem (or part thereof) in which the poet claim that they are supposedly unable or disinclined to write the type of poem that they originally intended to, and instead writes in a different style.

Movements

* Avant-garde ** Flarf poetry, Flarf ** Futurism (literature), Futurist ** Language poets, Language * Beat poem, Beat: A movement that arose from San Francisco’s literary counterculture in the 1950s. Its poetry is primarily free verse, often Surrealism, surrealistic, and influenced by the Cadence, cadences of jazz music. * Black Mountain poets, Black Mountain: A group of progressives in North Carolina associated with the experimental Black Mountain College in the 1940s and 1950s. Its poetic composition promoted a nontraditional style, following a Improvisation, improvisational, Aleatoric music, open-form approach, driven by the natural patterns of breath and the spoken word. * Confessional poetry, Confessional * Dada * Dark Room Collective * Fireside poets, Fireside * Fugitives (poets), Fugitives * Georgian Poetry, Georgian * Harlem Renaissance * Imagism * Metaphysical poets, Metaphysical * Négritude * New American Poetry, New American * New Criticism, New Critic * New Formalism, New Formalist * New historicism, New Historicist * New York School Poets, New York School * Objectivist poetry, Objectivist * Oulipo * Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Pre-Raphaelite * Romantic poetry, Romantic * Symbolist poetry, Symbolist

Other poetic devices

* Allusion: a brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement; in other words, a figure of speech using indirect reference." * Anacrusis: brief introduction. * Anaphora (rhetoric), Anaphora: the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to give emphasis. * Apostrophe (figure of speech), Apostrophe: an address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if that person were present. Example: "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman. * Blason: describes the physical attributes of a subject, usually female. * Circumlocution: a roundabout wording. Example: In "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge—“twice five miles of fertile ground” (i.e., 10 miles). * Epistrophe (aka epiphora): the repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases or verses. * Epizeuxis: the immediate repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis. * Metaphor: a rhetorical figure of speech marked by implicit comparison, rather than direct or explicit comparison like in a simile. In a metaphor, the ''Tenor (linguistics), tenor'' is the subject to which attributes are ascribed (i.e., the target); the ''vehicle'' is the subject from which the attributes are derived/borrowed (i.e., the source); and ''ground'' is the shared properties between the two.Cuddon, J. A. (1998) "Tenor and vehicle." In ''A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory'' (4th ed.). Oxford & Malden, MA: Blackwell. p. 904 ** Conceit: a typically unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose appeal is more intellectual than emotional. ** Extended metaphor (aka sustained metaphor): the exploitation of a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked tenors and vehicles throughout a poem. *** Allegory: an extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning. Often, the meaning of an allegory is religious, moral, or historical in nature. Example: "The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser. * Periphrasis: the usage of multiple separate words to carry the meaning of prefixes, suffixes or verbs. * Objective correlative * Simile: a figure of speech that directly/explicitly compares two things. ** Homeric simile (aka epic simile) * Syzygy (poetry), Syzygy: the combination of 2 metrical feet into a single unit, similar to an elision.

Theory

* Descriptive poetics * Historical poetics * Negative capability * Pathetic fallacy * Poetic diction * Poetic license * Porson's Law * Resolution (meter), Resolution: the phenomenon of replacing a long syllable with 2 short syllables. * Robert Bridges's theory of elision * Scansion * Sievers's theory of Anglo-Saxon meter * Theopoetics * Weak position (poetry), Weak position