Iambic+verse
21Free verse — is a term describing various styles of poetry that are written without using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers will perceive to be part of a coherent …
22blank verse — noun unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) • Hypernyms: ↑poem, ↑verse form * * * noun : unrhymed verse; specifically : the unrhymed iambic pentameter verse used especially in English dramatic and narrative poetry * * * unrhymed verse, esp …
23blank verse — unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse. [1580 90] * * * Unrhymed verse, specifically unrhymed iambic pentameter, the preeminent dramatic and narrative verse form in …
24Blank verse — is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter (like that which is used in Shakespearean plays). The first known use of blank verse… …
25Heroic verse — consists of the rhymed iambic line or heroic couplet. The term is used in English exclusively.In ancient literature, heroic verse was synonymous with the dactylic hexameter. It was in this measure that those typically heroic poems, the Iliad and… …
26Mysterious Music: Rhythm and Free Verse — is a book by G. Burns Cooper, and published by Stanford University Press in 1998. It examines the rhythm of free verse, with particular reference to the works of T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, and James Wright. In attempting to understand the… …
27Accentual-syllabic verse — is an extension of accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual syllabic verse is highly regular and therefore easily scannable. Usually, either one metrical foot, or a specific pattern… …
28heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles wrath, to Greece the… …
29Heroic verse — Heroic He*ro ic, a. [F. h[ e]ro[ i]que, L. hero[ i]cus, Gr. ?.] 1. Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor. [1913 Webster] 2.… …
30Fixed verse — forms are a kind of template or formula that poetry can be composed in. The converse of fixed verse is Free Verse poetry, which by design has little or no pre established guidelines.The various poetic forms, such as meter, rhyme scheme, and… …
