verse
single metrical line in a poetic composition
hendecasyllable
verse with 11 syllables per line
dodecasyllable
verse with 12 syllables per line
decasyllable
verse with ten syllables per line
Good News
poem by Uladzislaw Syrakomlia
Stoning Verse
short Arabic sentence, prescribing stoning as punishment for adultery; hypothesized by some to have been part of Surah 33 in the Quran; absent in modern editions
response
in liturgy, the second half of one of a set of preces
trisyllabic verse
verse in which each line contains only three syllables
fixed verse
poetic style
heptasyllable
verse of seven syllabes
Maid of Athens, ere we part
poem by George Gordon Byron
jaya
verse in the Mahabharata
monosyllabic verse
verse in which each line contains only one syllable
pentasyllabic verse
verse with five syllabes
alliterative verse
form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device
Sestina
Italian verse form
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
verse from Dante's "Inferno"
octosyllable
verse with eight syllables per line
foot
metrical unit in poetry
Galliambic
poetic metre used in Catullus's poem 63
Lay of Hildebrand
medieval German literary work
hexasyllable
verse form with six syllables per line
earworm
catchy piece of music that continually repeats through a person's mind after it is no longer playing
versicle
in liturgy, first half of one of a set of preces
enneasyllabic verse
verse with nine syllables per line
iambic poetry
genre of ancient Greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and featured insulting and obscene language and sometimes it is referred to as "blame poetry"
four-syllable line
verse of four syllables