A figure of speech where the poet treats an abstract thing or object as if it were a place. Edmund Spenser's "House of Holiness" is an example.

Also known as approximate, imperfect, near, or slant rhyme. A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. Approximate rhymes occur occasionally in patterns where most of the rhymes are perfect, and sometimes are used systematically in place of perfect rhyme.

A translation of the French vers d’occasion (literally, verse of the moment or occasion).This a poem written to commemorate a specific occasion, such as Yeats’ “Easter 1916” or, possibly, Donne’s “Nocturnal upon St Lucy’s Day”.

A metrical line containing eight feet. Robert Browning's - A Toccata of Galuppi's is one example.

A stanza comprising of eight lines:

-ababbcbc: Chaucer's stanzaic form in The Monk's Tale
-abbacddc, or abbaabba: the brace octave.
For example, W. B. Yeats' "Two Songs from a Play"

-abababcc: see Ottava rima
-abaaabab: see Triolet

Having eight syllables.

An ode is a poem of celebration.

The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound. Such devices bring out the full flavor of words.
Tennyson makes us feel the heaviness of a drowsy summer day by using a series of "in" sounds in the wonderfully weighted lines:
"The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees."
Or
Edgar A. Poe lets us hear the different kinds of sounds made by different types of bells in his famous poem "The Bells."

Having the magical properties of music made by Orpheus whose songs charmed inanimate things and wild beasts.

Italian stanza form composed of eight 11-syllable lines, rhyming abababcc. It originated in the late 13th and early 14th centuries and was developed by Tuscan poets for religious verse and drama and in troubadour songs.
In 1820, Shelley also became attracted by it, and translated the "Hymns of Homer" into Ottava Rima.