POETRY is painting with words used to conjure feelings or transport you into the real and unreal through rhythm, rhyme, or meter.

a set amount of lines in a poem grouped together by length, meter, or rhyme scheme
Couplet 2-line / Tercet 3-line / Quatrain 4-line / Cinquain 5-line / Sestet 6-lin
Meter combination of stressed and unstressed syllables
Rhyme scheme the pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each line or verse
Syllable the single, unbroken sound of a spoken or written word