A foot having one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.

To make a Dadaist poem:

Take a newspaper.
Take a pair of scissors.
Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
Shake it gently.
Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
Copy conscientiously.
The poem will be like you.
And here you are a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.
-Tristan Tzara

In short - "Dada is a state of mind. Dada is without pretension, as life should be. That is why it transforms itself according to races and events. Dada applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing, it is the point where the yes and the no and all the opposites meet, not solemnly in the castles of human philosophies, but very simply at street corners, like dogs and grasshoppers."

A medieval poem in dialogue that takes the form of a debate on a topic. An example is "The Owl and the Nightingale."

Verse which attempts to instruct or educate; said of works whose primary purpose is to teach some moral or other lesson, such as parable or a fable.

A line of poetry consisting of two metrical feet.

A stanza or poem of ten lines.

Poor quality poetry - poorly constructed verse, usually of a burlesque or comic sort jingle.

A poem representing itself as a speech made by one person to a silent listener, usually not the reader. Examples include Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," Alfred lord Tennyson's "Ulysses," and T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." A lyric may also be addressed to someone, but it is short and song-like and may appear to address either the reader or the poet.

A (traditionally medieval) poet's relation of how he fell asleep and had an often allegorical dream. Examples include "Pearl," Langland's "Piers Plowman," and Chaucer's "The Book of the Duchess."