POEMS

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A line (verse) of poetry containing six iambic feet. See Spenserian stanza.   In English verse, examples of the Alexandrine line (and I do f...

The amphion is a 10-line structure in iambic meter.  Lines 1, 4, 7, and 10 are tetrameter (4 beats), and they are separated by couplets in d...

We are beholden to Eleanor Berry, a past president of National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS), for these definitions and ex...

The ballad is a rhymed form adapted for singing or recitation. Thrall & Hibbard 's  Handbook to Literature  speaks of the ballad as ...

The Beymorlin sonnet is a double-rhymed sonnet form requiring internal rhyme as well as end rhyme.  The internal rhyme must fall on the 2nd ...

        Blank verse is iambic pentameter without rhyme. That means each line contains 10 syllables or 5 iambic feet.  One iambic foot contai...