| Term | Definition |
|---|
| counterpoint rhythm | two opposing rhythms appear together, for example, 2 trochaic feet in an iambic line. "The world is charged with the grandeur of God." |
| dramatic monologue | a poem in which an imaginary character speaks to a silent listener |
| free verse | poetry not written in a regular, thythmical pattern, or meter |
| modernism | an international movement in the arts during the early 20th century |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| speaker | the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem; the character who "says" the poem |
| sprung rhythm | used by Gerard Manley Hopkins to describe the idiosyncratic meters of his poems |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward the readers and toward the subject |
| villanelle | a 19 line poem in which lines 1 and 3 of the opening stanza appear regularly throughout and the rhyme scheme is aba aba aba aba aba abaa |
| voice | the voice of a poet is his or her "sound" on the page |
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