Enjambment | Continuing a sentence beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza |
Assonance | The same / similar sound used in syllables of words near each other |
Ballad | Ancient poem telling a story |
Couplet | A pair of lines of verse usually the same length |
Octet / Octave | First 8 lines in a sonnet |
Pentameter | A line of 10 syllables |
Quatrain | A stanza / group of 4 lines usually with alternate rhymes |
Sonnet | A 14-line poem |
Stanza | Four or more rhymed lines repeated as a unit |
Verse | A group of lines in a poem |