{"id":84,"date":"2009-09-26T22:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T05:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2020-08-03T22:08:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T22:08:35","slug":"poetry-line-terms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/poetry-line-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Line Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Page Title Section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.5.2&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;#f4f4f4&#8243; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;rgba(244,244,244,0)&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction=&#8221;90deg&#8221; background_color_gradient_start_position=&#8221;50%&#8221; background_color_gradient_end_position=&#8221;80%&#8221; background_color_gradient_overlays_image=&#8221;on&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/files\/2019\/02\/Reflections2.jpg&#8221; 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Enjambment comes from the French word for \"to straddle.\"<\/p><p>-----<\/p><p>CAESURA<\/p><p>A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.<br \/>Example: \"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.\" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (The pause or caesura is after the ?)<\/p><p>-----<\/p><p>ENVOY<\/p><p>A short final stanza of a poem<\/p><p>-----<\/p><p>BLANK VERSE<\/p><p>Poetry written without rhymes usually in iambic pentameter.<\/p><p>----<\/p><p>CHAIN VERSE<\/p><p>Phrases or lines are repeated in succeeding stanzas.<\/p><p>-----<\/p><p>FREE VERSE<\/p><p>Basically anything that is not metered or rhymed.<\/p><p>-----<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10217940033071675_2067660953325404":"","twitter_62031022_62031022":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaKwh0-1m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}