Stanza, Couplet, Heroic couplet/Father of couplet/ types/ Meter/ Rhyme scheme.

 Stanza, Couplet, Heroic couplet

 Stanza:  A group of lines in a  repeated pattern that form a unit in some types of poem. 

Types: 1.  Chaucerian stanza/ Rhyme royal. 

            2. Ottava rima. (Sir Thomas Wyatt)it contains 8 lines. 

            3. Spenserian stanza. (Edmund Spenser) It contains 9 lines but last line is broad.

            4. Terza rima ( Italian poet Dante ) it contains 3 lines. 

            5. Quatrain (it is used especially to write balled). So it also called Balled stanza.

            6. Heroic Couplet. (it has paused(,) named Caesura).

 

 Couplet : Two lines  of poetry that usually  rhyme and are of the same length. Father of couplet.

 

 Heroic Couplet : Heroic Couplet means couplet /lines of iambic pentameter which  rhyme in . aa, bb, cc and so on.

Couplet refers to two lines that usually rhyme and follow each other.

Example :  Tyger, Tyger burning bright.

                  In the forest of the night. (William Blake)

 

2. There is a pause at the end of the second line.  

Example:  Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;

                 The proper study of mankind is man.(Alexander Pope).

3. One also notices an antithesis within or between two lines. 

1st person to make expensive  use of it: Geoffrey Chaucer in 14th century.

This form was perfected by john Dryden  and Alexander Pope in the late 17th century and early 18th century.

 

Iambic Pentameter: a line of verse with five  metrical feet, each consisting of one  unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. It contains 7 lines.