![]() chiasmus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed. These can be used with commas to express shifts in emotion. AN example would be run on lines like in "What lips my lips have kissed." caesura A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. ![]() end-stopped lines the end of a line of poetry that coincides with the end of a thought, like the periods on the ends of lines in "What lips my lips have kissed." enjambent the running on of the though from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break. ![]() meter The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse. A volta is used in the Happy is England poem, when referring to Italy and how John Keats misses it. volta rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion. epigrammatic of the nature or in the style of an epigram concise, clever, and amusing: Usually associated with Shakespeare's works. couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Quatrain 4 line stanza: Used in English sonnets.
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