Seldomly
an unnecessary variant of seldom, which is an adverb.
Alas
archaism meaning, essentially, “oh no!” or “how unfortunate!”
Thusly
It’s not wrong, but it can always give way to thus, which is an adverb in its own right.
Beckon call
= eggcorn for beck and call.
Catachresis
= an intentionally mixed metaphor or strained figure.
Apostrophe (poetry)
a figure of speech in which a speaker addresses an imaginary or abstract thing.
Imagism
Imagism was a short-lived school of poetry that emphasized clarity and precision and rejected verbiage and sentiment. At the center of the movement was Ezra Pound, who was influenced in his thinking by a group of London poets and philosophers, among them T.E. Hulme, whose essay, “Romanticism and Classicism,” was seminal to the movement. In his essay, Hulme foretells a classical revival in poetry. Rejecting Romanticism—which he argues is based upon the mistaken idea that a human is “an infinite …
Close rhyme
= rhymes that are close together.
Bard
= a professional poet.
Acephalous
In poetry, an acephalous line is one that lacks an initial syllable suggested by the meter.