Poetic Terminology

Don't worry about writing a response for tomorrow's class, but since we will be discussing poetry for the first time, I would like for you to be familiar with the following terms when you arrive. If you don't know their meanings, please look them up prior to class. There will be other terms you will need to know, but these will suffice for the time being. Thanks. I'm really looking forward to seeing you tomorrow and discussing the early Yeats.

• Accentual verse
• Syllabic verse
• Accentual-syllabic verse
• Iamb
• Trochee
• Spondee
• Pyrrhic
• Anapest
• Dactyl
• Trimeter
• Metrical substitution
• Enjambment
• End-stopped line
• Stanza
• Rhyme scheme
• Stichic poem
• Strophic poem
• Tetrameter
• Pentameter
• Caesura