THE LOGOPHILE LEXICON
PART V: CORE COMPONENTS
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5.1: Core Components - Fiction
5.2a: Core Components - Types of Poetry
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5.1: Core Components - Fiction
5.2a: Core Components - Types of Poetry
- 5.2b: Poetry by the Numbers
- 5.2.c: Poetic Form and Structure
- 5.2d: Figures of Speech
- 5.2e: Poetic Movements and Ages
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Part 5.2: Core Components- Poetry
TYPES OF POETRY
Poems are a literary work written in stanzas and lines using rhythm (beat) to convey ideas and emotions. Sentence length, word placement and line groupings are the important elements that make up the structure of a poem. This structure is called a form.
ABECEDARIA - A poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet
ACROSTIC - A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically.
ALCAIC - A four-line stanza invented by the Classical Greek poet Alcaeus that has a specific syllabic count per line and a predominantly dactylic meter.
ARS POETICA - A poem that explains the “art of poetry,” or a meditation on poetry using the form and techniques of a poem.
AUBADE - A love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn.
BALLAD- A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain.
LITERARY BLAZON (OR BLASON) - Catalogues the physical attributes of a subject, usually a female.
CANZONE - A medieval Italian lyric poem, with five or six stanzas and a shorter concluding stanza (or envoy).
CAROL - hymn or poem often sung by a group, with an individual taking the changing stanzas and the group taking the burden or refrain.
COMPLAINT - A poem of lament, often directed at an ill-fated love.
CONCRETE POETRY - Verse that emphasizes nonlinguistic elements in its meaning, such as a typeface that creates a visual image of the topic.
DIDACTIC POETRY - Poetry that instructs, either in terms of morals or by providing knowledge of philosophy, religion, arts, science, or skills.
DIRGE - brief hymn or song of lamentation and grief; it was typically composed to be performed at a funeral.
DOGGEREL - Bad verse traditionally characterized by clichés, clumsiness, and irregular meter.
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE - A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader.
ECLOGUE - brief, dramatic pastoral poem, set in an idyllic rural place but discussing urban, legal, political, or social issues.
EKPHRASTIC POEM - Vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art.
ELEGY - A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful.
ENGLISH (OR SHAKESPEAREAN) SONNETS - Composed of three quatrains and a final couplet, with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Written in iambic pentameter.
ENVOI - brief ending (usually to a ballade or sestina) no more than 4 lines long; summary.
EPIC - long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure. Two of the most famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer.
EPIC SIMILE - detailed, often complex poetic comparison that unfolds over the course of several lines. It is also known as a Homeric simile, because the Greek poet Homer is thought to have originated the device in the epic poems.
EPIGRAM - very short, witty poem.
EPISTLE - letter in verse, usually addressed to a person close to the writer. Has moral and philosophical, intimate or sentimental themes.
EPITHALAMIUM (or Epithalamion)- poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom.
FLARF - Deliberately bad or “incorrect” poetry by forcing clichés, swear words, onomatopoeia, and other linguistic aberrations into poetic shape.
FOUND POEM - A prose text or texts reshaped by a poet into quasi-metrical lines.
GEORGIC - A poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics, which commonly glorifies outdoor labor and simple country life
GHAZAL- Arabic verse form dealing with loss and romantic love. Consisting of syntactically and grammatically complete couplets, the form also has an intricate rhyme scheme.
HAIKU - A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
HYMN - A poem praising God or the divine, often sung.
IDYLL, OR IDYL - A short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene or a long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds or extraordinary events in the distant past.
ITALIAN (OR PETRARCHAN) SONNETS - Divided into two quatrains and a six-line "sestet," with the rhyme scheme abba abba cdecde (or cdcdcd).
LAMENT - Any poem expressing deep grief, usually at the death of a loved one or some other loss
LANDAYS - A form of folk poetry from Afghanistan. Meant to be recited or sung aloud, and frequently anonymous, the form is a couplet comprised of 22 syllables
LAY - A long narrative poem, especially one that was sung by medieval minstrels called trouvères.
LIGHT VERSE - Whimsical poems taking forms such as limericks, nonsense poems, and double dactyls.
LITANY - Initially a prayer or supplication used in formal and religious processions. This form typically includes repetitious phrases or movements, sometimes mimicking call-and-response
LIMERICK - A light, humorous poem of five usually anapestic lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba.
LYRIC - A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song.
MADRIGAL - A song or short lyric poem intended for multiple singers. Originating in 14th-century Italy, it became popular in England in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
MOCK EPIC - A poem that plays with the conventions of the epic to comment on a topic satirically.
NARRATIVE - Telling a story. Ballads, epics, and lays are different kinds of narrative poems.
OCCASIONAL POEM - A poem written to describe or comment on a particular event and often written for a public reading.
ODE - A lyric poem that is serious and thoughtful in tone and has a very precise, formal structure.
OTTAVA RIMA - type of poetry consisting of 10- or 11-syllable lines arranged in 8-line "octaves" with the rhyme scheme abababcc.
PASTORAL - A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way.
PALINODE - An ode or song that retracts or recants what the poet wrote in a previous poem.
PANEGYRIC - A poem of effusive praise.
PANTOUM - A Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets and occasionally imitated in English. It comprises a series of quatrains, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
PROSE POEM - prose composition that, while not broken into verse lines, demonstrates other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and other figures of speech common to poetry.
RENGA- A Japanese form composed of a series of half-tanka written by different poets. The opening stanza is the basis of the modern haiku form.
RHYME ROYAL - A type of poetry consisting of stanzas of seven lines in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ababbcc.
RONDEAU - A octosyllabic French poem consisting of between 10 and 15 lines and three stanzas. It has only two rhymes, with the opening words used twice as an unrhyming refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas.
RONDEL (ROUNDEL) - A poetic form of 11 to 14 lines consisting of two rhymes and the repetition of the first two lines in the middle of the poem and at its end.
SENRYU - A short Japanese poem that is similar to a haiku in structure but treats human beings rather than nature, often in a humorous or satiric way
SESTET - A six-line stanza, or the final six lines of a 14-line Italian or Petrarchan sonnet.
SESTINA - A complex French verse form, usually unrhymed, consisting of six stanzas of six lines each and a three-line envoy.
SIJO - A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprising three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables.
SPOKEN WORD - A broad designation for poetry intended for performance.
SONNET - A lyric poem that is 14 lines long.
TANKA - A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven.
TERZA RIMA - A type of poetry consisting of 10- or 11-syllable lines arranged in three-line "tercets" with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc, etc.
UBI SUNT - A number of medieval European poems begin with this Latin phrase meaning “Where are they?” A series of questions about the fate of the strong, beautiful, or virtuous.
VILLANELLE - A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas.
Poems are a literary work written in stanzas and lines using rhythm (beat) to convey ideas and emotions. Sentence length, word placement and line groupings are the important elements that make up the structure of a poem. This structure is called a form.
ABECEDARIA - A poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet
ACROSTIC - A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically.
ALCAIC - A four-line stanza invented by the Classical Greek poet Alcaeus that has a specific syllabic count per line and a predominantly dactylic meter.
ARS POETICA - A poem that explains the “art of poetry,” or a meditation on poetry using the form and techniques of a poem.
AUBADE - A love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn.
BALLAD- A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain.
LITERARY BLAZON (OR BLASON) - Catalogues the physical attributes of a subject, usually a female.
CANZONE - A medieval Italian lyric poem, with five or six stanzas and a shorter concluding stanza (or envoy).
CAROL - hymn or poem often sung by a group, with an individual taking the changing stanzas and the group taking the burden or refrain.
COMPLAINT - A poem of lament, often directed at an ill-fated love.
CONCRETE POETRY - Verse that emphasizes nonlinguistic elements in its meaning, such as a typeface that creates a visual image of the topic.
DIDACTIC POETRY - Poetry that instructs, either in terms of morals or by providing knowledge of philosophy, religion, arts, science, or skills.
DIRGE - brief hymn or song of lamentation and grief; it was typically composed to be performed at a funeral.
DOGGEREL - Bad verse traditionally characterized by clichés, clumsiness, and irregular meter.
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE - A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader.
ECLOGUE - brief, dramatic pastoral poem, set in an idyllic rural place but discussing urban, legal, political, or social issues.
EKPHRASTIC POEM - Vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art.
ELEGY - A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful.
ENGLISH (OR SHAKESPEAREAN) SONNETS - Composed of three quatrains and a final couplet, with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Written in iambic pentameter.
ENVOI - brief ending (usually to a ballade or sestina) no more than 4 lines long; summary.
EPIC - long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure. Two of the most famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer.
EPIC SIMILE - detailed, often complex poetic comparison that unfolds over the course of several lines. It is also known as a Homeric simile, because the Greek poet Homer is thought to have originated the device in the epic poems.
EPIGRAM - very short, witty poem.
EPISTLE - letter in verse, usually addressed to a person close to the writer. Has moral and philosophical, intimate or sentimental themes.
EPITHALAMIUM (or Epithalamion)- poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom.
FLARF - Deliberately bad or “incorrect” poetry by forcing clichés, swear words, onomatopoeia, and other linguistic aberrations into poetic shape.
FOUND POEM - A prose text or texts reshaped by a poet into quasi-metrical lines.
GEORGIC - A poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics, which commonly glorifies outdoor labor and simple country life
GHAZAL- Arabic verse form dealing with loss and romantic love. Consisting of syntactically and grammatically complete couplets, the form also has an intricate rhyme scheme.
HAIKU - A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
HYMN - A poem praising God or the divine, often sung.
IDYLL, OR IDYL - A short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene or a long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds or extraordinary events in the distant past.
ITALIAN (OR PETRARCHAN) SONNETS - Divided into two quatrains and a six-line "sestet," with the rhyme scheme abba abba cdecde (or cdcdcd).
LAMENT - Any poem expressing deep grief, usually at the death of a loved one or some other loss
LANDAYS - A form of folk poetry from Afghanistan. Meant to be recited or sung aloud, and frequently anonymous, the form is a couplet comprised of 22 syllables
LAY - A long narrative poem, especially one that was sung by medieval minstrels called trouvères.
LIGHT VERSE - Whimsical poems taking forms such as limericks, nonsense poems, and double dactyls.
LITANY - Initially a prayer or supplication used in formal and religious processions. This form typically includes repetitious phrases or movements, sometimes mimicking call-and-response
LIMERICK - A light, humorous poem of five usually anapestic lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba.
LYRIC - A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song.
MADRIGAL - A song or short lyric poem intended for multiple singers. Originating in 14th-century Italy, it became popular in England in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
MOCK EPIC - A poem that plays with the conventions of the epic to comment on a topic satirically.
NARRATIVE - Telling a story. Ballads, epics, and lays are different kinds of narrative poems.
OCCASIONAL POEM - A poem written to describe or comment on a particular event and often written for a public reading.
ODE - A lyric poem that is serious and thoughtful in tone and has a very precise, formal structure.
OTTAVA RIMA - type of poetry consisting of 10- or 11-syllable lines arranged in 8-line "octaves" with the rhyme scheme abababcc.
PASTORAL - A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way.
PALINODE - An ode or song that retracts or recants what the poet wrote in a previous poem.
PANEGYRIC - A poem of effusive praise.
PANTOUM - A Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets and occasionally imitated in English. It comprises a series of quatrains, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
PROSE POEM - prose composition that, while not broken into verse lines, demonstrates other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and other figures of speech common to poetry.
RENGA- A Japanese form composed of a series of half-tanka written by different poets. The opening stanza is the basis of the modern haiku form.
RHYME ROYAL - A type of poetry consisting of stanzas of seven lines in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme ababbcc.
RONDEAU - A octosyllabic French poem consisting of between 10 and 15 lines and three stanzas. It has only two rhymes, with the opening words used twice as an unrhyming refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas.
RONDEL (ROUNDEL) - A poetic form of 11 to 14 lines consisting of two rhymes and the repetition of the first two lines in the middle of the poem and at its end.
SENRYU - A short Japanese poem that is similar to a haiku in structure but treats human beings rather than nature, often in a humorous or satiric way
SESTET - A six-line stanza, or the final six lines of a 14-line Italian or Petrarchan sonnet.
SESTINA - A complex French verse form, usually unrhymed, consisting of six stanzas of six lines each and a three-line envoy.
SIJO - A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprising three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables.
SPOKEN WORD - A broad designation for poetry intended for performance.
SONNET - A lyric poem that is 14 lines long.
TANKA - A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven.
TERZA RIMA - A type of poetry consisting of 10- or 11-syllable lines arranged in three-line "tercets" with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc, etc.
UBI SUNT - A number of medieval European poems begin with this Latin phrase meaning “Where are they?” A series of questions about the fate of the strong, beautiful, or virtuous.
VILLANELLE - A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas.
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