Definitions: Chapter 24 – “Poetic Forms”
Free verse: also called open form, it refers to poems characterized by its nonconformityto established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza.
Stanza: a grouping of lines
Rhyme scheme: pattern of rhyme.
Couplet: two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter. Heroic couplet is rhyme lines in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet: a fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter.
Italian (Petrachan): usually an octave (abbaabba) and a sestet (cdecde, cdcdcd, cdccdc).
English (Shakespearean): three quatrains and a couplet (abab cdcd efef gg).