Rhythms and Shapes

  • accent
  • accentual meter
  • accentual-syllabic meter
  • alexandrine
  • alliterative meter
  • amphibrach
  • anapest
  • blank verse
  • catalectic
  • couplet
  • cretic
  • dactyl
  • dimeter
  • diminishing rhyme
  • distich
  • elegiac distich
  • elision
  • end-rhyme
  • end-stopped
  • enjambment
  • falling ending
  • foot
  • fourteener
  • hexameter
  • iamb
  • internal rhyme
  • line break
  • meter
  • monometer
  • octave
  • off rhyme
  • ottava rima
  • pentameter
  • pyrrhic
  • quatrain
  • quintain
  • refrain
  • repetend
  • repetition
  • repeton
  • rhyme
  • rhyme scheme
  • rhythm
  • rising ending
  • sapphic stanza
  • sapphics
  • scansion
  • septet
  • sestet
  • slant rhyme
  • spondee
  • stanza
  • strophe
  • tercet
  • terza rima
  • tetrameter
  • triadic line
  • true rhyme
  • variation

rhyme royale also called Chaucer stanza, Troilus stanza, and rime royal

a seven line stanza generally in iambic pentameter following an ababbcc rhyme scheme