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  • heroic a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
  • haiku an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  • sonnet a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  • limerick a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
  • stanza a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  • rondel a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
  • heroic verse a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
  • terza rima a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.
  • heroic meter a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter
  • rondeau a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
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