| Description | Poetry Term |
| Repetition of similar sounds occurring at determined or regular intervals | |
| Type of rhyme in which it looks like the words should rhyme, but they don't | |
| A poem of fourteen lines, traditionally iambic pentameter | |
| Type of above poem which has an octave followed by a sestet | |
| Type of above poem which has a final couplet called a turn | |
| Unstressed, stressed foot | |
| Stressed, unstressed foot | |
| Unstressed, unstressed, stressed foot | |
| Stressed, unstressed, unstressed foot | |
| Stressed, stressed foot | |
| Unstressed, unstressed foot (extremely rare) | |
| Line with one foot | |
| Line with two feet | |
| | Description | Poetry Term |
| Line with three feet | |
| Line with four feet | |
| Line with five feet | |
| Line with six feet | |
| Line with seven feet | |
| Line with eight feet | |
| Repetition of vowel sounds | |
| Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | |
| Repetition of similar consonant sounds, not necessarily at the beginning of words | |
| Giving human qualities to inanimate objects | |
| Comparison between two usually unrelated things (The clouds are marshmallows) | |
| Comparison between two things using the word 'like' (John is like a big bear) | |
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