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What is an ode?
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A complex, serious, long lyric poem
typically one theme
purpose may be to eulogize someone or something
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What is a sonnet?
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A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter
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What is the Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet?
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8 lines (abba abba rhyme scheme)
asks question or presents statement that is answered or addressed in concluding six lines
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What is the English (Shakespearean) Sonnet?
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Three quatrains (4 lines) concluding with couplet in abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme
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What is Spenserian Sonnet?
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3 quatrains (4 lines) in linked rhyme scheme: abab bcbc cdcd ee
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What is a ballad?
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Narrative songs
subject usually courage or love
4-line stanzas in abcb defe rhyme scheme
generally in iambic foot
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What is limerick?
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Nonsense verse written in 5 anapestic lines with trimeter (lines 1,3,5) & dimeter (lines 2,4) rhythm
aabba rhyme scheme
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What is an epigram?
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Short poem witty with twist in thought
clever saying used to eulogize, satirize, or compliment
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