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☆☆☆☆☆Any kind of rhyming couplet ends Shakespearean, doesn't have to be heroic The Shakespearean (or "English" or "Elizabethan") sonnet ends with a heroic couplet.
The line over a repeating decimal is called the vinculum.
Perfect end rhymes
The villanelle
It is friendly and happy-go-lucky
rhyme
a 16th century poem with the title Villanelle
repetition can quickly become stale
letting the definition of the repeated words change slightly each time
To create a sense of return
As the line progresses it becomes to sound more ironic
Nocturne
A speaker who is not the poet himself
There is an expectation of rhyme, so the reader is pulled forward.
They include many rhymes, so they can create a singsong effect.
a poem with "Villanelle" as its title
end words are repeated several times
