Shakespeare's Sonnets

Prudence P. (United States of America)
Academic vocabulary needed to learn and use for a lesson in the Shakespearean sonnet.
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  1. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  2. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  3. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  4. blank verse
    unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  5. verse
    literature in metrical form
  6. prose
    ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  7. meter
    a basic unit of length (approximately 1.094 yards)
  8. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  9. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  10. quatrain
    a stanza of four lines
  11. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
Created on Fri Jan 07 12:04:35 EST 2011

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