It is not enough to say a verse, we must also recognize the importance of various figures of speech. Analysts cannot hope to explain completely the mysterious nature of poetry; yet knowledge of poetic terms can be a real step toward a richer appreciation of poetry.
- anapest
- assonance
- blank verse
- caesura
- consonance
- dactyl
- epic
- feminine rhyme
- foot
- free verse
- heroic couplet
- hexameter
- iamb
- imagery
- internal rhyme
- inversion
- masculine rhyme
- objective correlative
- pentameter
- poetic license
- quatrain
- scansion
- sonnet
- tetrameter
- trochee
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