A long poem typically one derives from ancient oral tradition narrating the deeds and Adventures of heroic or legendary figures for the history of a Nation
Elegy
A poem of serious reflection typically a lament for the Dead
Line
A basic structural component of a poem
Internal rhyme
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
Ballad
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
Close rhyme
Two rhyming words that are consecutive or very close together in a phrase or line
Meter
the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry and gives rhythm and regularity to a poem
Alliteration
The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words
Assonance
The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
Haiku
A Japanese poem of Seventeen syllables in three lines of five seven and five traditionally evoking images of the natural world
