CREATIVE WRITING

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Poem

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Kinds of Metrical Lines: five feet on a line

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pentameter

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Section of a poem named for its line count.

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stanza

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Four-line stanza, usual type

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Quatrain

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No pause at the end of a poetic line, carrying word-flow to the next line.

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Enjambment

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Poems with rhyme and meter.

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Traditional Poem

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No repeating patterns of stressed/unstressed syllables or rhyme.

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Free Verse

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Written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme.

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Blank Verse

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Basic beat in a poem.

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Rhythm

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Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Meter