Japanese poem consisting of 17 syllables - five syllables in first line, seven in second and five in the last. No rhyme or meter scheme is employed when writing haiku. This form usually focuses on one image of nature in a certain season and evoking a single emotion and insight.
One by Bashõ: "Clouds now and then give / people a welcome respite / from moon watching," and another by Moritake: "Cherry blosoms / fall upwards to the branch — / and I see butterflies!"

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See Alliteration.

Half a line.

A Classical Greek and Latin metrical line consisting of eleven syllables, a spondee or trochee, a choriamb, and two iambs, the second of which has an additional syllable at the end / ' ' / ' ~ ~ ' / ~ ' / ~ ' /.

A line of poetry that has seven metrical feet.

A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.
See Iambic pentameter.

A line containing six metrical 'feet'.

An ode in which a fixed stanzaic pattern is followed. Ex: Andrew Marvell's.

"An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland."

Hudibrastic Verse, a poem written in rhyming octosyllabic couplets.
The satire is written in the form of Hudibrastic verse, named for Samuel Butler’s hilarious satire of Puritans, Hudibras (1653–1680).

Overstatement; intentional exaggeration for a rhetorical or humorous effect.

A term applied to a line of verse with one or more extra syllables in the first or last foot, or both.