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Term Definition
Iambic meter

An end stressed two syllable foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.

 
Iambic tetrameter

Verse written in tetrameter has four measures, which are also called feet.
An example of four lines of tetrameter is the first stanza of the introduction to Milton,by William Blake:

"And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?"

 
Idyll or Idyl

Either a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene, or a long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds or extraordinary events set in the distant past.
" Idylls of the King" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, is about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
See also pastoral.

 
Imagists

A group of poets, working in the years immediately before World War 1, who promoted poems with, among other features, clear concrete images and everyday language. Pound's "In a Station of the Metro."

 
Internal rhyme

Rhyme in which at least one of the rhyming words is somewhere within a line of poetry; both rhyming words are often in the same line.
Examples: Every other line in "The Cloud" by Percy Bysshe Shelley has internal rhyme:

"I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noon-day dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the Sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder. "

 
Irony

Broadly, a means of indirection, that is, a language that states the opposite of what is intended.

 


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