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List of basic poetry topics
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- For a more comprehensive list, see the Glossary of poetry terms.
Poetry is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities, in addition to, or instead of, its ostensible meaning. Basic topics in poetry include:
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- Main article: Poetry
For movements see List of poetry groups and movements.
- Automatic poetry
- Black Mountain
- Chanson de geste
- Concrete poetry
- Cowboy poetry
- Digital poetry
- Epitaph
- Erasure poetry
- Fable
- Found poetry
- Haptic Poetry
- Imagism
- Libel
- Limerick poetry
- Lyric poetry
- Metaphysical poetry
- Medieval poetry
- Minnesinger
- The Movement
- Narrative poetry
- Objectivist
- Parnassian
- Pastoral
- Performance poetry
- Post-modernist
- Romanticism
- San Francisco Renaissance
- Sound poetry
- Symbolism
- Troubadour
- Trouvère
- Visual poetry
- Main article: History of poetry
- Accents
- Couplets
- Elision
- Feet
- Intonation
- Meter
- Moras
- Prosody
- Rhythm
- Scansion
- Stanzas
- Syllables
- Caesura
- See also Parallelism, inflection, intonation, foot
- spondee — two stressed syllables together
- iamb — unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- trochee — one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
- dactyl — one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
- anapest — two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable
The number of metrical feet in a line are described in Greek terminology as follows:
- dimeter — two feet
- trimeter — three feet
- tetrameter — four feet
- pentameter — five feet
- hexameter — six feet
- heptameter — seven feet
- octameter — eight feet
- Iambic pentameter (John Milton, Paradise Lost[1])
- Dactylic hexameter (Homer, Iliad;[2] Ovid, The Metamorphoses)
- Iambic tetrameter (Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress")
- Iambic tetrameter (Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin)[3]
- Trochaic octameter (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven")[4]
- Anapestic tetrameter (Lewis Carroll, "The Hunting of the Snark";[5] Lord Byron, Don Juan)[6]
- Alexandrine, also known as iambic hexameter (Jean Racine, Phèdre)[7]
- 2-line stanza: couplet or distich
- 3-line stanza: triplet or tercet
- 4-line stanza: quatrain
- 5-line stanza: quintain or cinquain)
- 6-line stanza: sestet
- 8-line stanza: octet
- Rhetorical device
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Irony
- Surrealism
- Catachresis
- Allegory
- Allusion
- Imagery
- Symbolism
- Refrain
- William Shakespeare
- Basho (芭蕉松尾）
- Li Bai (李白)
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Mikhail Lermontov (Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов)
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Robert Frost
- Ignacy Krasicki, Fables and Parables
- Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven
- Main article: Glossary of poetry terms
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