Forms of Verse

accent accurate masculine alliteration alliterative anapest ancient Mariner Anglo-Saxon approximate rhyme beauty blank verse century cesura Chaucer CLASSICAL PROSODY dead death diction Donne doth dream E. E. Cummings effect end-stopping English verse essay example EXERCISE eyes feet feminine ending feminine rhyme foot four-stress free verse FRENCH FORMS hath heart heroic couplet iambic pentameter John Keats lady language light line length literary ballad Lord Randal masculine rhyme metaphor meter metrical pattern Milton minor-accent moon narrative night number of syllables passages pauses Petrarchan Petrarchan sonnet poem poetic poetry Pope popular ballad prose prosody quatrain reader repetition rhyme royal rhyme scheme rhyme sound rhythm scansion sestet Shakespeare Shakespearean sing sleep song sonnet soul Spenserian stanza stressed strophe structure subject matter substitutions sweet term terminal rhyme tetrameter thee Thomas thou unstressed syllables variant W. H. AUDEN WILLIAM wind words write