Life Style / Poetry Glossary

Tribrach: Greek and latin metrical foot consisting of short, short, and short syllables / ~ ~ ~ /.

Trimeter: Three feet: sometimes termed tripody, a triple foot, one measure made up of three feet. An example is percy bysshe shelley's 'to a skylark,' which uses trochaic trimeters for the first two l . . . View Full Definition

Triolet: An eight-line stanza having just two rhymes and repeating the first line as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth. Examples are w. E. Henley's 'easy is the triolet' . . . View Full Definition

Triplet: A three-syllable foot, or a three-line stanza, with a single rhyme. For example, robert herrick's 'upon julia's clothes.'

Trochee: A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable. Examples of trochaic words include 'garden' and 'highway.' william blake opens 'the tyger' with a predo . . . View Full Definition

Trope : A semantic figure of speech or of thought that varies the meaning of a word or passage. Examples include metaphor, metonymy, objectification, and personification.

Ubi sunt : A medieval commonplace that reveals the mutability of all things, the loss of all through death, by posing a series of questions that ask where the strong, the beautiful, and the good have g . . . View Full Definition

Vers De Société: Sophisticated light verse of a kind appealing to the gentry. Poets writing in this vein include charles stuart calverley, frederick locker lampson, and john betjeman.

Verse: As a mass noun, poetry in general (but in a non-judgmental sense): and, as a regular noun, a line of poetry.

Verse Paragraph: A group of verse lines that make up a discourse unit, the first verse of which is sometimes indented, like a paragraph in prose.

Victorian: Verse written in the reign of victoria, from 1837 to 1903.

Villanelle: An italian verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas (tercets) and a final quatrain, possessing only two rhymes, repeating the first and third lines of the first stanza alternately in . . . View Full Definition

Virelay: A medieval french poetic form, consisting of short lines in stanzas with only two rhymes, where the final rhyme of one stanza becomes the main rhyme of the next.

Voiced And Unvoiced: Consonants are voiced when the vocal cords move (/b/) and unvoiced when they remain still (/p/).

Wheel: An alliterative rhyming quatrain with four-stress lines that follows the so-called bob, known together as a bob-and-wheel.

Zeugma : Thomas thomas's latin-english dictionary (1587) translates this as 'a figure whereby many clauses are ioyned with one verb,' but zeugma also describes the linking of two nouns with a verb as . . . View Full Definition

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