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FORM OF POETRY Section 001 / Fall 2004 / Susan Tichy / Tuesay 7:20-10:00 / Place TBA FORM & GENRE LISTS: THE LIST OF LISTS!
AN INDEX TO SELECTED POEMS IN YOUR
ANTHOLOGIES
+ a few links to poems at other locations Poems in the Norton MODERN or CONTEMPorary
are italicized. Page One: 4x4 & related forms: Ballad / Common Measure / Hymnal / Page Two: Sonnet / Blank verse / Heroic couplet / Hexameter / Short couplet / Page Three: Trimeter & Dimeter / Triple meters / Hexameter Page Four: Heroic quatrain / Short quatrain / Rubaiyat / Envelope quatrain / Couplet quatrain / Other quatrains / Page Six: Tercets & Triplets / Terza Rima / Quintets / Sestets / Septets / Octaves / Nine & Ten Line Forms / Other stanza forms / Villanelle / Sestina / Pantoum / etc. Page Eight: Strong-stress & Accentual / Syllabics / Page
Nine: Genres (or kinds): Aubade / Epigram
/ Epistle / Ars Poetica / Nocturne
/ Elegy / Ekphrasis / Carpe Diem / Pastoral
/ Satire / Ode / Dramatic Monologue &
Other Persona Poems / Stanza Forms: Quick Reference Heroic Line: iambic pentameter Alexandrine: iambic hexameter Fourteener: iambic heptameter, generally a couplet aa Couplet: any two-line unit short couplet: iambic tetrameter aa heroic couplet: iambic pentameter aa split or uneven couplet: lines of different lengths: aa open couplet: first line runs on, second end-stopped aa closed couplet: both lines end-stopped aa Tercet: any three-line unit triplet: three lines with a single rhyme aaa blues stanza: a triplet with 1st line repeated and third rhyming: AAa BBb terza rima: a series of tercets with interlocking lines: aba bcb cdc haiku: Japanese: syllabic triplet with 5/7/5 syllables per line Quatrain: any four-line unit ballad stanza: accentual, alternating four-beat & three beat xaxa common measure: iambic, alternating tetrameter & trimeter xaxa hymnal stanza: same as common measure, but rhymes abab heroic quatrain (or stanza): iambic pentameter abab envelope quatrain: abba Italian q.: envelope q. in iambic pentameter “In Memoriam q.”: envelope q. in iambic tetrameter couplet quatrain: aabb pantoum: Malayan: a set form in quatrains with interlocking refrains and rhymes Quintet: any five-line unit English quintet: ababb Tanka: Japanese: syllabic, 5/7/5/77 Sestet: any six-line unit heroic: iambic pentameter, ababcc or abbacc Italian: iambic pentameter, abcabc Sicilian: iambic pentameter, ababab Burns Stanza: three lines iambic tetrameter, then a dimeter, a tetrameter, and a final dimeter, rhymed aaabab Septet: any seven-line unit Rime Royal: iambic pentameter: ababbcc Octave: any eight-line unit Ottava Rima: iambic pentameter, abababcc Nine-line Forms: Spenserian stanza: 8 lines iambic pentameter, last line an Alexandrine Ten-line Forms: English ode stanza: ababcdecde Sonnet: Italian or Petrarchan: octave & sestet: abbaabba cdecde (or cdcdcd) English or Shakespearean: three quatrains & couplet: ababcdcdefef gg Spenserian: three interlocking quatrains & couplet: abab bcbc cdcd ee Miltonic: Italian sonnet w/ the turn in middle of line, usually the 9th Curtal: Hopkins: 11-line form: sestet, quatrain, & the last line a single spondee: abbacy dbcd c (considered a sonnet only because Hopkins said so) Blues: four blues triplets & couplet: AAa BBb CCc DDd ee Ballade: French: 2 octaves & a quatrain, turning on 3 rhymes (see Chaucer’s “Complaint to His Purse”) Villanelle: 19 lines: 5 triplets & quatrain, with two rhymes & two refrains Sestina: 39 lines: 6 sestets & tercet: with six end-words repeated in fixed sequence nd all 6 words appearing in the tercet, 2 per line
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