Glossary of poetry terms

A
Acatalectic, acatalexis | Acatalexis: Acatalectic | Accent | Accentual verse | Accentual-syllabic verse | Acephalous: headless verse | Acrostic | Action poetry | Adonic | Aestheticism | Alcaics | Alexandrine | Allegory | Alliteration | Allusion | Ambiguity | Amphibrach | Amphimacer: Cretic | Amplification | Anachronism | Anacoluthon | Anacreontic verse | Anacrucis | Anadiplosis | Anagram | Analepsis | Analogue | Anapest | Anaphora | Antepenultima | Anthropomorphism | Antibacchic | Antiphon | Antispast | Antistrophe | Antithesis | Antonomasia | Antonymy | Aphesis | Aphorism | Apocope | Aporia | Aposiopesis | Apostrophe | Archaism | Archetype | Asclepiad | Assonance | Asyndeton | Atmosphere | Aubade (Provençal) | Augustan | Aureate language

B
Bacchic | Ballad | Ballade | Ballad stanza | Bard | Bathos | Beat poets | Black Mountain Poets | Blank verse | Blues | Bob | Bombast | Bouts rimés | Bretan lay | Broadside ballads | Broken rhyme | Bucolic: Pastoral | Burden | Burlesque | Burns stanza

C
Cacophony | Cadence | Caesura | Canon | Canto | Canzone | Carol | Caroline | Carpe diem | Catachresis | Catalectic, Catalexis | Catalexis: Catalectic | Catalogue verse | Celtic revival | Chanson | Chant royale | Chiasmus | Choka | Choliamb | Choree | Choriamb | Cinquain | Circumlocution | Clerihew | Closed couplet | Cockney School of Poetry | Common measure | Complaint | Conceit | Concrete poetry | Confessional poetry | Connotation | Consonance | Content words | Convention | Corona | Counting-out rhymes | Couplet | Cretic | Curtal sonnet

D
Dactyl | Débat | Deictic | Denotation | Didactic verse | Dimeter | Dirge | Dissonance | Distich | Dithyramb | Dizain | Doggerel | Double dactyl | Dramatic monologue | Dream vision | Duplet

E
Ear poetry | Echoism | Eclogue | Elegiac stanza | Elegy | Elision | Ellipsis | End-stopped | Enjambement | Envoy | Epic | Epic simile | Epigram | Epigraph | Epistle | Epistrophe | Epitaph | Epithalamion | Epitrite | Epizenxis | Epode | Euphony | Exemplum | Eye-rhyme

F
Fabliau | Feminine rhyme | Figure of speech | Fixed and unfixed forms | The Fleshly School of Poetry | Flyting | Folk song | Foot | Formula | Found poetry | Fourteener | Free verse

G
Georgian poets | Georgic poems | Ghazal | Glyconic | Gnomic verse | Graveyard Poets | Grue

H
Haiku | Hemistich | Hendecasyllabic | Hendiadys | Heptameter | Heroic couplet | Hexameter | Horatian ode | Hovering stress | Hudibrastic poetry | Hymn | Hyperbaton | Hyperbole | Hypercatalectic | Hypermetric

I
Iamb, iambus | Iambic pentameter | Iambic tetrameter | Iambic trimeter | Ictus | Idyll | Image | Imagism | In Memoriam stanza | Internal rhyme | Ionic | Irony | Isochronous Metre | Isocolon | Italian sonnet

K
Kenning | Kyrielle

L
Lai, lay | Lay, lai | Light verse | Limerick | Line | Litotes | Little Willy | Liverpool poets | Lyric

M
Macaronic verse | Madrigal | Maker | Masculine ending or rhyme | Metaphor | Metaphysical poets | Metonymy | Meter, metre | Metre, meter | Miltonic sonnet | Mock epic | Mock-heroic | Molossus | Monometer | Motif | Muses

N
Naga-uta | Negative capability | Neoclassicism | Neologism | Nonsense verse

O
Objectification | Objective correlative | Objectivist poets | Occasional poem | Occupatio | Octave | Octameter | Octosyllabic | Ode |Onomatopeia, onomatopoeia | Onomatopoeia, onomatopeia | Ottava rima | Overstatement | Oxymoron

P
Paeon | Palindromes | Palinode | Panegyric | Pantoum | Pantun | Paradox | Paralipsis | Parallelism | Parataxis | Parody | Paronomasia | Pastiche | Pastoral | Pathetic fallacy | Pattern poetry | Patun | PEN | Pentameter | Periphrasis | Persona | Personification | Petrarchan sonnet | Pherecratean | Phonemic alphabet | Phonolexis | Pindaric ode | Pleonasm | Poem | Poesy | Poet | Poetaster | Poetic diction | Poetic license | Poet Laureate | Poetry | Poet's corner | Polyptoton | Polysyndeton | Portmanteau word | Poulter's Measure | Prizes for poetry, poetry awards | Proceleus maticus | Prolepsis | Prose poem | Prosody | Prosopopoeia | Prothalamion | Pun | Pure poetry | Purple passage | Pyrrhic | Pythiambic

Q
Quadruplet | Qualitative meter | Quantitative meter | Quatrain | Quintain

R
Refrain | Renga | Reverdie | Rhetorical question | Rhyme | Rhyme royal, rime royale | Rhythm | Rime couée | Rhopalic verse | Romanticism | Rondeau | Rondel, roundel | Roundel, rondel | Roundelay

S
Sapphic verse | Scansion | Scheme | scop | Septet | Sestet | Sestina | Sextain | Shakespearean sonnet | Sick verse | Silent stress | Simile | Singlet | Skeltonic verse | Slack | Sonnet | Spasmodic School | Spenserian sonnet | Spenserian stanza | Spondee | Sprung rhythm | Stanza | Stichomythia | Stress | Strophe | Sublime | Syllabic verse | Syllable | Symbol | Symbolist Movement | Synaeresis, synaloepha | Syncope | Synecdoche | Synesthesia | Syzygy

T
Tanka | Tautology | Telestich | Tercet, terzet | Terza rima | Terzain | Terzet, tercet |Tetrameter | Theme | Tone | Tornada | Travesty | Tribrach | Trimeter | Triolet | Triplet | Trochaic, trochee | Trochee | Trope

U
Ubi sunt | Understatement | Unvoiced, not voiced

V
Vers de société | Verse | Verse paragraph | Vers libre | Victorian | Villanelle | Virelay | Voice | Voiced and unvoiced

W
Wheel

Z
Zeugma