Poetry Skills Vocabulary

a single row of words in a poem

• stanza

• rhyme

• Line

• Couplet

A group of lines in a poem

• Line

• Stanza

• Rhyme scheme

• Tercet

Repetition of syllables

• Tercet

• Quatrain

• Rhyme scheme

• Rhyme

The pattern of Rhymes at the end of each line of a poem

• Line

• Stanza

• Rhyme scheme

• Rhyme

The act of repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas

• Rhyme Scheme

• Rhyme

• Line

• Repetition

this has 14 lines connected by a rhyme scheme

• Quatrain

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

• Couplet

19 Lines often formed in tercets or a Quatrain

• Couplet

• villanelle

• Tercet

• Quatrain

A pair of lines in a poem that form a single idea or thought

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

• Tercet

• Couplet

a stanza of poetry that contains 3 lines

• Quatrain

• Tercet

• Couplet

• Villanelle

A stanza of 4 lines in a poem that can be rhymed or unrhymed

• Quatraine

• Tercet

• Couplet

• Villanelle