Poetry Glossary - List of all terms
AbecedarianAcrostic
Aisling
Alliteration
Anapest
Anaphora
Antonym
Assonance
Ballad
Ballade
Blank verse
Calligram
Canzona (Canzone)
Chant Royal
Chastushka
Cinquain (Quintain)
Clerihew
Cliché
Consonance
Couplet
Dactyl
Dedication
Diction
Direct rhyme
Elegy
Enclosed rhyme
End-stopped
Englyn
Enjambment
Synonym
Envoi
Epigram
Epistle poem
Epithalamium
Figure of speech
Foot (plural Feet)
Free Verse
Grook
Haiku
Heroic Couplet
Homonym
Homophone
Iamb
Imagery
Indirect rhyme
Invocation
Kimo
Kyrielle
Limerick
Line
Line break
Metaphor
Meter
Monologue
Nonet
Octave
Ode
Onomatopoeia
Ottava Rima
Oxymoron
Palindrome
Pantoum
Parody
Pastoral
Pathos
Persona
Prose
Pyrrhic
Quatrain
Reverdie
Pantun
Rhyme Royal (Rime Royal)
Rhyme scheme
Rhythm
Rondel
Rondelet
Rubaiyat
Scansion
Senryu
Sestina
Sijo
Simile
Sonnet
Sonnet, Petrarchan (Italian)
Sonnet, Shakespearean (English)
Spondee
Stanza
Stanza break
Syllable
Synecdoche
Synesthesia
Tanka
Tercet (Triplet)
Terzanelle
Triolet
Tanaga
Trochee (Choree)
Villanelle
Virelai ancien
Virelai nouveau
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