A blank verse poem is a poem written in iambic pentameter
and does not rhyme. An iamb is a group of words, or one word, which consists of one
unstressed and one stressed foot. Pentameter simply means five. Therefore, an iambic
pentameter is five sets of stressed/unstressed words/phrases in a line of
poetry.
A standard form, in poetry, is an author's
commitment to follow any specific poetic form.
Regular
rhythm and rhyme describes an author's intent to keep the meter and rhyme of the poem
specific to the form they choose to write in.
A Petrarchan
sonnet is also known as an Italian Sonnet. The form of this sonnet is as
follows:
The poem consists of 14 lines broken into two
stanzas. The first line consists of eight lines and is called an octave.The rhyme scheme
is a,b,b,a,a,b,b,a.The second stanza consists of six lines and it is called sestet. The
rhyme scheme of this stanza can follow any of the following
patterns:
c d
c d c d
c d d c d c
c d e c d e
c d e c e d
c d
c e d c
All of Thomas Hardy's
poetry did not adhere to one specific form. One can read many of his poems and notice
that they do not follow all of the same rhymes or
meters.
For example, the poem "Beeny Cliff", the poem
consists of five stanzas which include three lines in each stanza. Each stanza has a
rhyme scheme which solidifies it to the stanza while separating it from the others. The
rhyme scheme of the poem is as follows:
a,a,a b,b,b
c,c,c d,d,d e,e,e
This poem is a simple poem which
contains alternating rhyme and is written in triplets- three lines which
rhyme.
Another poem, "The Man He Killed", also contains
five stanzas, but uses four lines in each stanza. The rhyme scheme is that of a,b,a,b
c,d,c,d. This makes the poem an alternating quatrain- four lines of alternating
rhyme.
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