Rhythm
Rhythm:
Rhythm is a literary device which demonstrates long and short rhyme patterns through
stressed and unstressed syllables in each stanza.
Rhyme Scheme:
The separated patters of similar sounds. The pattern of rhyming words at the end of
each stanza line ex: ABAB ACAB
Free Verse has no rhyming scheme
Internal Rhyme: Words that rhyme in the middle of a line.
End Rhyme: Words that rhyme at the end of a line.
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Sonnet: a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in
English typically having ten syllables per line.
Stanza: A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem or a
verse.
Elegy: a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
Couplet: a pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.
Free Verse: poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.
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