1. More About Poetry About Sonnets Petrarchan (Italian)
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

2. 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”

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

4. Lyric Poems A story told with the poet playing upon a lyre.
Example: Daffodils

5. Heroic Couplets Firmly end-stopped and written in iambic pentameter.
Example :The Iliad
The Odyssey
Couplet again means a two-line stanza that usually rhymes with an end-rhyme.

6. Dramatic Monologues vs Apostrophe
Poems that
address another person who
remains silent.
Apostrophes
A direct address of someone or something that is not there.

7. Limerick Five lines using anapest meter with the rhyme scheme aabba.
A memorable, but less developed example are the ones which begin with - “There was a young...”, or in a similar way.
Elegy
Lament for death or the passing of love or a concept.

8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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