Internal rhymeIn poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. By contrast, rhyme between line endings is known as end rhyme. Internal rhyme schemes can be denoted with spaces or commas between lines. For example, denotes a three-line poem with the same internal rhyme on each line, and the same end rhyme on each line (which does not rhyme with the internal rhyme). The following example is in limerick form.
SestetA sestet is six lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem. A sestet is also the name given to the second division of an Italian sonnet (as opposed to an English or Spenserian Sonnet), which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines. The etymology of the word can be traced to the Italian word sestetto, meaning “sixth”. The origin of the sonnet form has been traced to poems by Giacomo di Lentino in Sicily. The original sonnet form is the Sicilian Sonnet (also in octave and sestet) rhyming ABABABAB CDECDE or CDCDCD.
Line (poetry)A line is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided. The use of a line operates on principles which are distinct from and not necessarily coincident with grammatical structures, such as the sentence or single clauses in sentences. Although the word for a single poetic line is verse, that term now tends to be used to signify poetic form more generally. A line break is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line.
Terza rimaLa terza rima (ˈtɛrtsa ˈriːma) ou tierce rime est une structure rimique particulière des strophes intercalant dans un tercet une rime issue du tercet suivant. Elle est utilisée pour la première fois par le poète italien Dante Alighieri dans son œuvre majeure la Divine Comédie. Contraintes structurelles définissant la terza rima : la rime du premier vers et la rime du dernier n’ont qu'un écho ; la rime des autres vers ont deux échos le nombre de tercets n’est pas limité le dernier vers est toujours isolé le troisième vers d'un tercet est un écho au premier vers le second vers d'un tercet est repris en écho dans le tercet suivant en premier vers Représentation schématique de la terza rima : ABA-BCB-CDC-DED-EFE-FGF-GHG-HIH-I.
Poésieupright=0.8|thumb|Manuscrit du poème Les Assis d’Arthur Rimbaud recopié par Paul Verlaine. La poésie est un genre littéraire très ancien, aux formes variées, écrites généralement en vers mais qui admettent aussi la prose, et qui privilégient l'expressivité de la forme, les mots disant plus qu'eux-mêmes par leur choix (sens et sonorités) et leur agencement (rythmes, métrique, figures de style). Sa définition se révèle difficile et varie selon les époques, au point que chaque siècle a pu lui trouver une fonction et une expression différente, à quoi s'ajoute l'approche propre à la personnalité de chaque poète.
HuitainAn octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian). The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is ABBA ABBA. An octave is the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet, which ends with a contrasting sestet. In traditional Italian sonnets the octave always ends with a conclusion of one idea, giving way to another idea in the sestet. Some English sonnets break that rule, often to striking effect.
Eugène OnéguineEugène Onéguine ou Oniéguine (en Евгений Онегин ; ) est un roman en vers d'Alexandre Pouchkine. Composé entre 1821 et 1831, le roman a d'abord été publié chapitre par chapitre. Le roman se compose de tétramètres iambiques. Eugène Onéguine a été composé sur huit années, de 1823 à 1831. L'œuvre paraît d'abord par chapitre à partir de février 1825 jusqu'en janvier 1832. La seconde parution complète des huit chapitres a lieu en mars 1833, puis une troisième édition en janvier 1837, un mois avant le duel fatal de Pouchkine.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. , personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it "my best bid for remembrance". The text of the poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep.
Enclosed rhymeEnclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme) is the rhyme scheme ABBA (that is, where the first and fourth lines, and the second and third lines rhyme). Enclosed-rhyme quatrains are used in introverted quatrains, as in the first two stanzas of Petrarchan sonnets. ''(From John Milton: "Sonnet VII") "Exposure", by Wilfred Owen, also has a good example of enclosed rhyme.
Chain rhymeChain rhyme is a rhyme scheme that links together stanzas by carrying a rhyme over from one stanza to the next. A number of verse forms use chain rhyme as an integral part of their structures. One example is terza rima, which is written in tercets with a rhyming pattern ABA BCB CDC. Another is the virelai ancien, which rhymes AABAAB BBCBBC CCDCCD. Other verse forms may also use chain rhyme. For instance, quatrains can be written to the following pattern: AABA BBCB CCDC. There are a few well-known examples of chain rhyme in world literature.
