The Romance

You are the narrative poem…..

Aubade

You are a love lyric…….

The Ode

A long expressive poem……

Elegy

Elegy…..

Scansion

You are the one…..

Rhyming Scheme

The pattern created……..

Litotes

Litotes all I see……

Dipodic Verse

The “Two-footed”…..

Hyperbole

An exaggerated statement…..

Personification

The breath of life you give inanimate objects….

Parallelism

Parallelism from the Greek roots meaning……

Metaphor

You compare one thing to another…….

The Terza Rima

Your interlocking rhyme scheme…..

Imagery

It is visual……

Free Verse

Vers libre……

Simile

You are just a figure of speech……

Irony

One thing and another in contrast…….