Named for their creater, John Skelton, short verses of irregular meter with two or three stresses, sometimes in falling and sometimes in rising rhythm, and usually with rhymed couplets.Ī dramatic or literary form of discourse of a person speaking to himself without addressing a listener.Ī Song is an expression of a poet's personal emotions, meant to be sung. such as "Your eyes are like sparkling diamonds". Nature is often the subject matter of these poems like traditional haiku.Ī comparison between two unlike things using like or as, etc. The third line often introduces a resolution, a touch of humor, or a turn of thought. Also called eye rhymeĪ short Korean poetry form consisting of three lines, each line having a total of 14-16 syllables in four groups ranging from 2 to 7 (but usually 3 or 4) syllables, with a natural pause at the end of the second group and a major pause after the fourth group. Middle if third line - 6, end of third line - 1Ī rhyme consisting of words with similar spellings but different sounds. Middle of second line - 4, end of second line - 3 Middle of first line - 2, end of first line - 5 The envoy uses two of the ending words per line, again in a set pattern. Rather than use a rhyme scheme, the six ending words of the first stanza are repeated as the ending words of the It consists of six six-line (sestets) stanzasįollowed by a three-line envoy. The sestina is a strict ordered form of poetry, dating back to twelfthĬentury French troubadours. Verses ending with the same word with which they begin. Music sung (a lover's song) or performed in the open air at nights. See example.Ī Latin verse used only in comedy and consisting of seven feet.ĭefinition can go in this space along with some br tags and stuff. References to the natural world and thus stand out from nature/seasonal haiku. Senryu is usually written in the present tense and only references to some aspect of human nature or emotions. Of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 Senryu (also called human haiku) is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting The analysis of verse into metrical patterns. To mark off lines of poetry into rhythmic units, or feet, to provide a visual representation of their metrical structure.
The Sapphic strophe consists of three Sapphic verses followed by an Adonic. After the odes of the Greek lyric poet, Sappho, a verse of eleven syllables in five feet, of which the first, fourth and fifth are trochees, the second a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
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