alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
Read more about the abecedarian form at Poets.org .

The prominence or emphasis given to a syllable or word. In the word poetry, the accent (or stress) falls on the first syllable.For example - it refers to the stressed portion of a word:

"Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness;
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,
over all the earth and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth"
Genesis 26-27

Place the stress or accent on 'Our' and suddenly we have more than one God. Place it on 'them' then, there would appear to be a lot of men already there ready to receive planetary rights. Place it strategically on 'fish', 'birds', 'cattle' then you've got a really nice wrap up with accenting the last 'earth' for emphasis.

An acrostic poem is a verse in which sets of letters (like the beginning letters) form a word.
Example by Edgar Allan Poe:
Eerie stories and poems
Decorate our imagination. Both
Good and evil
Are challanged along with
Reality.

A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
The following stanza is composed of four lines.
The first three lines, 11 syllables long, are called hendecasyllabics; the last line, only five syllables, designed to represent, an 'adonic.'

Marvellous Sapphics by Rachel Wetzsteon.

I would like to tell you about a lovely
stanza form I've long been an ardent fan of:
it was conjured up in a simpler time by
Classical Sappho.

A line of poetry that has 12 syllables. The name probably comes from a medieval romance about Alexander the Great that was written in 12-syllable lines.

An allegory (from Greek) is a figurative representation conveying a meaning other than and in addition to the literal.
An allegory is distinguished from a metaphor by being longer sustained and more fully carried out in its details, and from an analogy by the fact that the one appeals to the imagination and the other to the reason.
For example: a fable or parable is a short allegory with one definite moral. Some elaborate and successful specimens of allegory are to be found in the works of authors:
Jonathan Swift's "A Tale of a Tub," or William Golding's
" Lord of the Flies."

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words. Example: "What a tale of terror now their turbulence tells."

An end-stressed meter consisting of three syllables per foot.

(Greek, 'a carrying up or back')
Successive phrases, clauses, or lines start with the same word or words. Emily Brontë's "Remembrance," for example, repeats its opening phrase, "Cold in the earth."

A figure of speech where the poet characterizes an abstract thing or object as if it were a person.

Classical Greek and Latin foot consisting of long, long, and short syllables / ' '
~ / . An English example is the word "Goddamit."

A sacred poem with responses or alternative parts.

(Greek, counter-turn')
(1) a reply to the strophe, and the second stanza in a Pindaric ode; or (2) the repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive lines or clauses.

Contrasting or combining two terms, phrases, or clauses with opposed or antithetical meanings.

A concise statement of a truth or principle, often pointed like an epigram - similar in nature to a proverb, but with a known author.

A direct address to someone (usually absent) or something, or a god or goddess of some abstract quality.

A Classical metrical line made up of a spondee, two or three choriambs, and one iamb or spondee, i.e., / '' / ' ~~ ' / ' ~ ~ ' / ~ ' / (named after the Greek poet Asclepiades, ca. 290 B.C.). Examples of accentual asclepiads in English include Sir Philip Sidney's "O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness" from Arcadia, and W. H. Auden's "In Due Season."

It is the repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds, as in a tongue twister.

An Aubade may be a poem about lovers separating at 'dawn' or a celebration of the 'dawn.'

From the influence of the era of Roman emperor Augustus (27 B.C. to A.D. 14), in the golden age with poets like Vergil and Horace and Ovid - however, the Augustan Age was the period after the Restoration era to the death of Alexander Pope.
The major writers were Alexander Pope and John Dryden.

Latinate poetic diction employed especially by the Scottish Chaucerians.