English Poetry

The English Poetry Metanode

Introduction
Good Evening and Hello. Welcome to another edition of melodrame's Metanodes. Tonight, unlive, from E2, we have the English Poetry Metanode. Take a seat, a cup of tea perhaps? And let us begin our profound study of English Poetry in its unbound beauty...

English Poetry

• The Everything Anthology of North American Poetry
• The Everything Anthology of British Poetry

Types of Poems - Classification

Narrative
• Epic
• Ballad
Lyric
• Song
• Elegy
• Ode
• Sonnet
  • Petrarchan Sonnet
  • Shakespearean Sonnet
Descriptive
Dramatic

• Comedy
• Tragedy
• Farce

Haiku
Limerick
Villanelle

• Dramatic Monologue
• Analogy
• Allegory

Forms of Poetry - Versification

General Terminology
• Stanza
• Form and Structure
• Blank Verse
• Free Verse
• Couplet
• Heroic Couplet or Classical Couplet
• Tercet
• Quatrain
• Sestet
• Septet
• Octave
• Rhyme Scheme

Types of Rhymes
• Perfect Rhyme
• Imperfect Rhyme
• Internal Rhyme

• Rythym
  
  
• Foot
  • Duple Meter
    • Iamb / Iambic
    • Trochee / Trochaic
  • Triple Meter
    • Anapest / Anapestic
    • Dactyl / Dactylic
  • Spondee / Spondaic
  • Catalectic
  
  
• Meter
  • Monometer
  • Dimeter
  • Trimeter
  • Tetrameter
  • Pentameter
  • Hexameter
  • Heptameter
  • Octometer
  
  
• Iambic Pentameter
• Dactylic Hexameter
• Metrical Feet
• Caesura
• Anacrusis

Rhetorical Devices
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Repetition
• Onomatopoeia

Figurative Devices
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Metonymy
• Synecdoche
• Apostrophe
• Hyperbole
• Litotes
• Euphenism
• Antithesis
• Epigram
• Oxymoron
• Irony
• Rhetorical Question
• Allusion
• Paradox