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A line break is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. The process of arranging words using lines and line breaks is known as lineation, and is one of the defining features of poetry. [2] A distinct numbered group of lines in verse is normally called a stanza. A title, in certain poems, is considered a line.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Cadence: the patterning of rhythm in poetry, or natural speech, without a distinct meter; Catalexis: shortening of a line by one element (adjective: catalectic) Acatalexis: the opposite of catalexis; Acephalous line: a line lacking the first element; Line: a unit into which a poem is divided
In poetry, a couplet (/ ˈ k ʌ p l ə t / CUP-lət) or distich (/ ˈ d ɪ s t ɪ k / DISS-tick) is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line ...
Villanelle–A poem consisting of two rhymes within five 3-line stanzas followed by a quatrain. The villanelle conveys a pleasant impression of simple spontaneity, as in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s 'The House on the Hill'. Shakespeare Sonnet 18; Sonnet–A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme scheme. Traditionally ...
In this poem, Whitman uses synonyms and antonyms to give structural integrity to a poem comprising two yoked stanzas, much like (but not exactly like) the way poets working within closed forms use meter and rhyme to give structural integrity to their poems. The poem has form, but the form was not imposed by previous conventions. It has open ...
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]
This line includes a masculine caesura after θεὰ, a natural break that separates the line into two logical parts. Homeric lines more commonly employ feminine caesurae; this preference is observed to an even higher degree among the Alexandrian poets. [3] An example of a feminine caesura is the opening line of the Odyssey: