Glossary I - P
The following is an A to Z of poetic and related terms. I hope you will also find this beneficial when choosing the style of poem or letter you want written.
I
Iamb - a metrical foot consisting of two syllables. One being short or unstressed and the other being long or stressed.
J
Jingle - Short and simple piece of rhyming verse. Popular in children’s nursery rhymes and television advertising.
K
Kyrielle - a Middle French verse form written in rhyming couplets or alternatively quatrains which each share the same second and fourth lines.
L
Lyric - is derived from the Greek word meaning ‘for the lyre’. Originally they were verses meant to be sung but nowadays refer to poetry characterized by transience, compression, and the expression of emotion. Usually written in the first person.
M
Meter/Metre - The measured pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poems. It gives rhythm and regularity to poetry. There are four kinds which include accentual, syllabic, accentual-syllabic, and quantitative.
N
Narrative - A poem that tells a story, including the likes of Ballads and Epics.
O
Onomatopoeia - words used to imitate the sounds that the poet is attempting to describe. For example: hiss, boom, tick-tock.
P
Poetry - The word derives from the Greek “ποίησις” (pronounced poiesis) which in its basic form means ‘creating’ or ‘making’. It is a configuration of speech or writing that blends the euphony of its language with its subject.
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