" "Whereon the Sun in pity veiled his glare. Personification: an attribution of human qualities to an idea, an inanimate object, or an animal. "īlason: a poem that proceeds detail by detail in either praise or blame of an individual, often an extended set of metaphors and/or similes that build on descriptions of the body: "I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,/ By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,/By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh." Rhyme scheme: Poems such as sonnets that make use of end rhymes (rhymes at the end of each line), often do so according to a repeating, predetermined pattern. "The wind is a hammer upon the eyelids of this coastland." "The wind is like a hammer. What Is Iambic Pentameter Writing a poem in iambic pentameter is not as difficult as it sounds. For example, iambic pentameter is a type of meter used in many sonnets that contains five iambs per line (thus the prefix penta, which means five). A simile makes the comparison in a less direct manner, using "like" or "as." E.g. Metaphor/ Simile: a comparison of two unlike objects or an idea and an object. Petrarch's Sonnet # 61)Ĭonceit: an elaborate and surprising comparison between two apparently dissimilar things. Traditionally the poet seeks to make the rhymes in the seset as different as possible from the two quatrains. Traditionally the first quatrain introduces the subject, the second complicates the subject, and the sestet resolves or alters the subject in some way.Ī rhyme scheme of abba abba in the quatrains, and cdc dcd with some variations in the sestet.
A quatrain is a stanza of four lines a sestet is a stanza of six lines. Three stanzas - two quatrains and a sestet.
"Loving /in truth, /and fain /in verse /my love /to show."
Pentameter is a poetic line with five feet: E.g. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. An iamb is a poetic foot with a count of two syllables, where the second one is stressed.
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