Poetic
Justice:
The natural judgment which gives the wicked his due
punishment and the virtuous his due reward.
Pun or
Paronomasia:
A play upon words which are similar in sound but different
in meaning. It occurs when a single word conveys two meanings. Here is an often
quoted example from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Ill,i): " Ask for me
tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man • Here "grave man" may
mean a man of grave disposition or a dead man. There is another variety of pun
where two words of identical sounds but different spellings are used to convey
two different meanings. For example: "Would that its tone could reach
(arrive at) the rich (the wealthy)." (Hood)
Pyrrhic:
A foot of two unstressed syllables.
Rhythm: The sound pattern made by the rise
and fall of the stresses in speech.
Stanza:
A division of a poem. It is the unit of structure in a poem.
However, in some cases, the stanza is a unit of thought of a poem. There are
several stanza patterns. They vary from each other according to their number of
lines, length of each of the lines and rhyme scheme. The common English stanza patterns are
Spenserian stanza, quatrain, ottava rima, rhyme royal, terza rima, and tercet.
Spenserian
stanza:
A pattern of stanza consisting of nine verse lines of which
the first eight are in iambic pentameter and the ninth is in iambic hexameter.
Its rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc. This stanza pattern is named after Edmund
Spenser who invented it for the Faerie Queene. It is generally used for longer
poems which need gracious and leisurely movement. Many other later poets have
also used this pattern.
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