EN 1002 Chapter Notes -Sestet, Palindrome, Villanelle
10 Jan 2015
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Set patterns of rhythm and rhyme that governs whole poems or parts of them rather than individual stanzas: the couplet: any pair of consecutive lines that share end rhymes, regardless of their meter (aabb, a heroic couplet: same rules as couplet, but requires an iambic pentameter, blank verse: consists of lines with regular meter, usually iambic pentameter, but no discernable rhyme scheme, free verse: lacks both regular meter and rhyme. Fixed forms or form based subgenres: haiku: consists of seventeen syllables, arranged in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, limerick: a light or humorous poem or subgenre of poems consisting of mainly anapestic lines of which the first, second and fifth are of three feet; the third and fourth lines are two feet; and the rhyme scheme is aabba, villanelle: a verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas five tercets (three line stanzas) and one quadrain (four line stanzas).
