Tail Rhyme
Also called caudate rhyme, a verse form in which rhyming lines, usually a couplet or triplet, are followed by a tail, a line of shorter length with a different rhyme; in a tail-rhyme stanza, the tails rhyme with each other.
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Tanka
Tanka is a classic form of Japanese poetry related to the haiku with five
unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables. (5, 7, 5, 7, 7). See example.
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Tenson or Tenzon
A medieval competition in verse on the subject of love or gallantry before a tribunal between rival troubadours (12th & 13th-century lyric poets).
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Tercet
A group of three lines of verse, often rhyming together or with another triplet. (Also see triplet)
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Terza Rima
A verse form Italian origin consisting of tercets of 10 or 11 syllables tercets, usually in iambic pentameter in English poetry, with a chain or interlocking rhyme scheme, as: aba, bcb, cdc, etc. The pattern concludes with a separate line added at the end of the poem (or each part) rhyming with the second line of the preceding tercet or with a rhyming couplet.
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Tetrameter
A line of verse consisting of four metrical feet.
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Theme
The central idea, topic, or subject of artistic representation.
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Thesis
The unaccented or short part of a metrical foot, especially in accentual verse.
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Tone
The poet's attitude or expression toward the subject. Tone can also refer to the overall mood of the poem itself, in the sense to influence the readers' emotional response.
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Tragedy
A medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the downfall of a great person; a drama most often written in verse and climaxing in death or disaster.
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Tribrach
A metrical foot having three short or unstressed syllables.
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Trimeter
A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet
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Triolet
A poem or stanza of eight lines with a rhyme scheme ABaAabAB, in which the fourth and seventh lines are the same as the first, and the eighth line is the same as the second.
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Triple Rhyme
A rhyme involving three syllables in which the words have the same sound, as in sanity and vanity.
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Triplet
A group of three lines of verse.
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Trisyllable
A three-syllable word such as humanity or glorious.
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Trochee, Trochaic
A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
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Trope
A figure of speech using words in nonliteral ways, such as a metaphor (irony).
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Troubadour
One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in Southern France, northern Italy, and northern Spain, often of knightly rank, who composed songs about courtly love.
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Trouvere
One of a class of poet-musicians flourishing in northern France in the 12th and 13th centuries, who composed chiefly narrative works, such as the chansons de geste, in langue d'oïl.
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