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Meter the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse Foot the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse. A foot is two syllables Lamb a metrical foot where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word be .cause Trochee a metrical foot where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word af . ter Prose the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse Tercet a three line stanza Quatrain a four line stanza Couplet a pair of successive lines of verse, especially which rhyme and are of the same length Narrative Poem a poem which tells a story (Noyes' "The Highwayman") Villanelle a nineteen line poem consisting of five tercets and one quatrain where lines 1 and 3 are refrains repeated in the last line of alternative stanzas until they end the poem as a couplet (Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night") Dramatic Monologue a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker reveals aspects of his/her character while describing a particular situation or series of events Free Verse a form of poetry that has no set meter, rhyme, or any other musical pattern Metonymy when a poet refers to something by one of its characteristics rather than its name - for example, referring to a country's 'strength' rather than 'armies' (Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death" / "My labor, and my leisure too," (Line 7) Anaphora rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences