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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. "I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, |
| Irony | Broadly, a means of indirection, that is, a language that states the opposite of what is intended. |
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