Concepts

By the form, one accomplishes beauty, and one creates vision. Vision is created by the use of form since the poem is ordered. It lends itself to the reader, it is safe, and the reader may study the work.

These are concepts of formal poetry:

FOOT
Iamb (Iambic)	Unstressed + Stressed
Trochee (Trochaic)	Stressed + Unstressed
Spondee (Spondaic)	Stressed + Stressed
Anapest (Anapestic)	Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed
Dactyl (Dactylic)	Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed

METER
Monometer	One Foot
Dimeter	Two Feet
Trimeter	Three Feet
Tetrameter	Four Feet
Pentameter	Five Feet
Hexameter	Six Feet
Heptameter	Seven Feet
Octameter	Eight Feet

Incomplete foot at the end of the line: Catalexis
Complete foot at the end of the line: Acatalexis

STANZA
Distich	Two lines
Tercet	Three lines
Quatrain	Four lines
Cinquain	Five lines
Sestet/sextain	Six lines
Septet	Seven lines
Octave	Eight lines