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  2. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    Control flow: If every line has the same rhyme (AAAA), the stanza will read as having a very quick flow, whereas a rhyme scheme like ABCABC can be felt to unfold more slowly. Structure a poem's message and thought patterns: For example, a simple couplet with a rhyme scheme of AABB lends itself to simpler direct ideas, because the resolution ...

  3. Crossing the Bar - Wikipedia

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    Tennyson employs a traditional ABAB rhyme scheme. Scholars have noted that the form of the poem follows the content: the wavelike quality of the long-then-short lines parallels the narrative thread of the poem. The extended metaphor of "crossing the bar" represents travelling serenely and securely from life into death.

  4. Qasida - Wikipedia

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    The classic form of qasida maintains both monometer, a single elaborate meter throughout the poem, and monorhyme, where every line rhymes on the same sound [2] It typically runs from fifteen to eighty lines, and sometimes more than a hundred. [2]

  5. Internal rhyme - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. [1] [2] By contrast, rhyme between line endings is known as end rhyme. Internal rhyme schemes can be denoted with spaces or commas between lines. For example, "ac,ac,ac" denotes a three-line poem ...

  6. Monorhyme - Wikipedia

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    Monorhyme is a passage, stanza, or entire poem in which all lines have the same end rhyme. [1] The term "monorhyme" describes the use of one ( mono ) type of repetitious sound ( rhyme ). This is common in Arabic, Latin and Welsh work, [ 2 ] such as The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , [ citation needed ] e.g., qasida and its derivative kafi .

  7. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is the repetition of syllables, typically found at the end of a verse line. Assonance (aka vowel rhyme): the repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants. [1] 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

  8. The Road Not Taken - Wikipedia

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    The poem consists of four stanzas of five lines each. With the rhyme scheme as ABAAB, the first line rhymes with the third and fourth, and the second line rhymes with the fifth. The meter is iambic tetrameter, with each line having four two-syllable feet, though in almost every line, in different positions, an iamb is replaced with an anapest. [5]

  9. Spenserian sonnet - Wikipedia

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    Spenser is seen as one of the greatest poets of all time, and this poem is regarded as one of the best written in the English language. [ 5 ] Spenserian sonnets were created during the same time period as the Shakespearean sonnet , and so there are similarities in the features of both forms.