Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech.
Lyric
Originally a composition meant for musical accompaniment. The term refers to a short poem in which the poet, the poet's persona, or another speaker expresses personal feelings.
Octave
An eight-line stanza or poem.
Ode
A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.
Pastoral
Verse in the tradition of Theocritus (3 BCE), who wrote idealized accounts of shepherds and their loves living simple, virtuous lives in Arcadia, a mountainous region of Greece. Poets writing in English drew on the _______ tradition by retreating from the trappings of modernity to the imagined virtues and romance of rural life
Quatrain
A four-line stanza, rhyming ABAC, ABCB, AABB, ABAB, ABBA, AABA
unbounded or ballad quatrain
ABAC or ABCB
double couplet
AABB
interlaced, alternate, or heroic
