14 line ten syllable poems

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Sonnets. Each line has ten syllables, with accents on alternate syllables.
The sonnet is made of 3 quatrains, 4 lines of iambic pentameter. One iamb is (./) unstressed stressed syllables.

The last two lines are a couplet.

Here are some good sites on sonnet structure.

http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sonnet.html