ENGL 3020 : Final Study Guide
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In poetry and prose, it has consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line; where, unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones and five of which are stressed but do not rhymes. Also known as un- rhymed iambic pentameter: example: john milton"s paradise lost, free verse: poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythms and rhyme schemes; do not follow regular rhyme scheme rues and still provide artistic expression. In this way, the poet can give his own shape to a poem how he desires: heroic couplet: a couplet of rhyming iambic pentameters often forming a distinct rhetorical as well as metrical unit. The origin of the form in english poetry is unknown, but geoffrey chaucer in the 14th century was the first to make extensive used of it. It can be defined as a thought or sense, phrase or clause in.
