Verse Writing Simplified |
Common terms and phrases
accented anapestic beauty Blank verse called clear-cut contrast couplet create current magazines dactylic developed emotions employed end-stopped English example feet feminine rhymes final stanza fixed pattern four four-line stanzas four-stressed fourth lines free verse garden poem iamb iambic foot iambic pentameter idea imagery initial consonant sounds labeled last stanza last syllable last-syllable rhyme line-lengths lyric poem lyric poetry masculine rhyme means merely meter metrical monometer mood Note pentameter play poet points of technique prose reader rhyme scheme rhyme sounds rhyme syllables rhyme words rhythm rhythmic Robert Frost rondeau scrapbook second and fourth second line second stanza sestet single effect song sonnet stanza arrangement stanzas or quatrains stimulus stressed syllable symbols tě tě tercet tetrameter theme third lines third stanza thou thought content tree trimeter trochaic trochaic octameter trochee ubble family unaccented syllables unstressed versifiers vowel wind word pictures