rhymed verse
Lines with matching endings
Rhymed verse is poetry in which line endings share similar sounds according to some pattern.
The most common arrangements include couplets (AA BB), alternate rhyme (ABAB), and enclosed rhyme (ABBA).
Rhymed verse dominated English poetry for centuries before free verse gained prominence in the twentieth century.
She preferred the musical quality of rhymed verse to the looser structures of modern poetry.
- coupletTwo successive verse lines
- meterDevice that measures usage
- stressed syllableEmphasized unit of speech
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
limerick · villanelle · doggerel · quatrain · ottava rima · consonance · medieval ballads · syllable count · scansion · rondeau · ditty · ballad · jingle · greeting card · musical · iambic · refrain · lyric
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verses, rhymes
- poetry formshaiku, sonnet, sonnets, tanka, limerick
- Shakespeare's Sonnetsfair youth, dark lady, quatrains, couplet, iambic pentameter
- Chinese Poetryquatrains, nature poetry, love poetry, classical forms, literary tradition
- DrydenKing Arthur, Oedipus
- verse dramaGreek tragedy, classical tragedy, Shakespearean tragedy, Elizabethan drama, Shakespearean drama
literary mode
rhymed verseprose
Unversified language
expository writing · journalistic writing · technical writing