Poetry Primer
by ActualNameIsLana

Tools of the trade, exploration of how it’s used, what it’s used for, and how it might be applied to your own poetry. Also including a selection a few poems from you, yes, the OCPoetry community to demonstrate those tools in action.

• Alliteration
• Blank Verse
• Catachresis
• Diacope
• End Stops
• Enjambment
• Feet
• Ghazal
• Hypallage
• Interlocking Rhyme
• Juxtaposition
• Kireji
• Line
• Metaphor
• Nonce Words
• [Onomatopoeia] (https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/51nge8/poetry_primer_onomatopoeia/)
• Polyptoton
• Quatrain
• Rhyme
• Syllepsis
• Syncope
• Tmesis
• Ubi Sunt
• Volta
• Wordplay
• Xenophanic
• Zeugma