Poetic form Poetic form A Lecture on Modern Poetry was a paper by T. E. Hulme which was read to the Poets' Club around the end of 1908. It is a concise statement of Hulme's influential advocacy of free verse. The lecture was not published during Hulme's lifetime. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Lecture on Modern Poetry"
An acatalectic line of verse is one having the metrically complete number of syllables in the final foot. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acatalectic"
Accentual verse has a fixed number of stresses per line or stanza regardless of the number of syllables that are present. It is common in languages that are stress timed such as English as opposed to syllabic verse, which is common in syllable timed languages such as classical Latin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Accentual verse"
Accentual-Syllabic Verse is an extension of Accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual-Syllabic verse is highly regular and therefore easily scannable. Usually, either one metrical foot, or a specific pattern of metrical feet, is used throught the entire poem. The exception to this rule is the subsitution of one metrical foot for another, especially at the beginning of a line. ...more on Wikipedia about "Accentual-syllabic verse"
An acephalous or headless line is a line in a poem which does not conform to its accepted metre, due to the first syllable's omission. Acephalous lines are usually deliberate variations in scansion, but this is not always obvious. Famous poems to use such a technique include A.E. Housman's To an Athlete Dying Young. Robert Wallace argues in his Meter in English that the term acephalous line seems "pejorative", as if criticising the poet's violation of scansion, but this view is not widely held among critics . ...more on Wikipedia about "Acephalous line"
An acrostic (from the late Greek akróstichon, from ákros, "extreme", and stíchos, "verse") is a poem or other text written in an alphabetic script, in which the first letter, syllable or word of each verse, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out another message. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acrostic"
Adynaton (from Greek: a-: without and dynasthai: to be possible) is a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to suggest a complete impossibility. Adynaton was a widespread literary and rhetorical device during the Classical Period and was known in Latin as impossibilia. A frequent usage was to refer to one highly unlikely event occurring sooner than another: ...more on Wikipedia about "Adynaton"
The aisling ( Irish aislinn), pronounced ashling, or vision poem is a poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries in Irish language poetry. In an aisling, the island of Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, sometimes young and beautiful, sometimes old and haggard. This female figure is generally referred to in the poems as An Spéirbhean (the sky-woman). She laments the current state of the Irish people and predicts an immanent revival of their fortunes, usually linked to the return of a Stuart pretender to the English throne. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aisling"
Alcmanian is the name of a kind of verse composed of three dactyls and a long syllable, a dactylic tetrameter. An example follows: ...more on Wikipedia about "Alcmanian verse"
An alexandrine is a line of poetic meter. Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods and much less common in English poetry, which more frequently uses iambic pentameter or 5-foot verse. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexandrine"
Alliteration is a stylistic device, or literary technique, in which successive words (more strictly, stressed syllables) begin with the same consonant sound or letter. Alliteration is a frequent tool in poetry but it is also common in prose, particularly to highlight short phrases. Especially in poetry, it contributes to euphony of the passage, lending it a musical air. It may act to humorous effect. Related to alliteration are assonance, the repetition of vowel sounds, and consonance, the repetition of consonant sounds. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alliteration"
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal stylistic device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alliterative verse"
An amphibrach is a metrical foot used in Latin and Greek prosody. It consists of a long syllable between two short syllables. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amphibrach"
In poetry, anacrusis is the lead-in syllables that precede the first full measure, while, similarly, in music, it is the note or notes (even a phrase) which precede the first downbeat in a group. The latter sense is synonymous with upbeat and is often called the pickup or the pickup note. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anacrusis"
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An anapaest or anapest, also called antidactylus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one (as in a-na-paest); in accentual stress meters it consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. It may be seen as a reversed dactyl. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anapaest"
In Greek and Latin meter, an anceps syllable is a syllable in a metrical line which can be either short or long. An anceps syllable may be called "free" or "irrational" depending on the type of meter being discussed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anceps"
Antistrophe, the portion of an ode which is sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response the strophe, which was sung from east to west. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antistrophe"
Archilochian is a term in poetry, applied to a sort of verse, whereof Archilochus was the inventor. These consist of seven feet, the first four being ordinarily dactyls, though sometimes spondees, and the three last trochees. For instance, ...more on Wikipedia about "Archilochian"
Arsis and thesis is a phrase in musical composition, where a point being inverted, is said to move per arsin et thesin; that is, it rises in one part, and falls in another, or vice versa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arsis and thesis"
An asclepiad is a line of poetry following a particular metrical pattern. The form is attributed to Asclepiades of Samos and is one of the Aeolic metres. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asclepiad (poetry)"
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within a short passage of verse or prose. ...more on Wikipedia about "Assonance"
An aubade is a poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aubade"
An awdl is a long poem written in Welsh in one of twenty-four strict metres, using cynghanedd. Such poems are considered among the finest work that a bard can aim to produce, and prizes are given at eisteddfodau for the best awdl. ...more on Wikipedia about "Awdl"
A ballad is a story in a song, usually a narrative song or poem. It is a rhythmic saga of a past affair, which may be heroic, romantic or satirical, political (affected by the previous three types mentioned, refers to either glorifying the exploits or causes of a particular leader or group, and is typical of totalitarian political systems), almost inevitably catastrophic, which is related in the third person, usually with foreshortened alternating four- and three-stress lines ('ballad meter') and simple repeating rhymes, and often with a refrain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ballad"
The ballad meter, commonly found in ballads, has stanzas of four iambic lines. The first and third typically have four-stesses; the second and fourth have three-stresses and usually rhyme (Horton, 1995). ...more on Wikipedia about "Ballad Meter"
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