Poetry Concepts

FOOT
Iamb	Unstressed + Stressed
Trochee	Stressed + Unstressed
Spondee	Stressed + Stressed
Anapest	Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed
Dactyl	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

EPIGRAM

I regularly post epigrams. In The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition, 2002, it says:

“Epigram, originally an inscription suitable for carving on a monument, but since the time of the Greek Anthology applied to any brief and pithy verse, particularly if astringent and purporting to pint a moral.”

Preferably, but not necessarily, the epigram is rhyming, and made up of lines consistent, speaking of rhythm. This is an example, by me, of an epigram:

WHAT GOD IS

God is one and God is two –
is to feel and is to do.
Heart and mind is being it
which by you are being fit.

The form of the epigram is not restricted to four lines, though, and not to the metrical feets iamb or trochee. The form of mine is. I call these iambic or trochaic tetrametric quatrains "locuses".