Structure Analysis of Poetry

A long poem narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem

A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line

a poem in which certain letters in each line form a word or phrase

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter

Two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line.

A Japanese poem total 17 syllables; 5/7/5

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

A humorous verse of three long and two short rhyming lines: aabba

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry and gives rhythm

Expressing the writer’s emotions usually briefly and in stanzas

verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus

Three-lined stanza

A basic structural component of a poem

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem