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LET’S LEARN
ABOUT SOME
POETRY!
“Poetry
lifts the veil from the hidden
beauty of the world”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
Organizational
 Verse—A
line of poetry
 Couplet—Two
poetry.
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
Devices in Poetry
lines of rhymed
Stanza—An organizational pattern
of verse.
Quatrain—A four line stanza or
poem.
FORM
Form
is the poem’s structure, or
the way the words are arranged
on the page.
Lines are group into stanzas,
which function like paragraphs
in prose. Each stanza plays a
part in conveying the overall
message of the poem.
Traditional
Organic
Characteristics: does not
 Characteristics:
follow established rules
follows fixed rules,
of form
such as a specified
 Does not have a regular
pattern of rhythm and
number of lines
may not rhyme at all
 Has a regular
 May use unconventional
pattern of rhythm
spelling, punctuation,
and/or rhythm
and grammar
 Forms: epic, ode,
 Forms: free verse,
ballad, sonnet, haiku,
concrete poetry

limerick
Traditional
Surgeons must
be very careful
When they take
the knife!
Underneath their
fine incisions
Stirs the
Culprit—Life!
(Emily
Dickinson)
Organic
1(a
le
af
fa
ll
s)
one
l
iness
(ee cummings “A Leaf Falls
on Loneliness)
SONNET (TRADITIONAL)
Made up of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic
pentameter. There are two types: Petrarchan
and Shakespearean. A Shakespearean sonnet
consists of three quatrains and a final couplet.
The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.
 A Petrarchan, or Italian, sonnet rhyme scheme is
abba abba cde cde. This consists of an octave (8
lines) and a sestet (6 lines). The octave usually
introduces a problem and the sestet provides
some sort of solution.

POETIC ELEMENTS
 Like
music, language has rhythm. The
pattern of stressed and unstressed
syllables in each line creates the rhythm.
Rhyme can occur at the end of the lines as
end rhyme or within the lines as
internal rhyme.
 A regular pattern of rhythm is called a
meter. A regular pattern of rhyme is
called a rhyme scheme.
Sound device

Repetition
 A sound, word, phrase, or
line that is repeated for
emphasis and unity.
Alliteration
repetition of consonant
sounds at the beginning
of words
Assonance
repetition of vowel
sounds in words that
don’t end with the same
consonant
Consonance
repetition of consonant
sounds within and at the
end of words
Example




“Back off from this poem.
Back off from this poem.”
“Which circle slowly like a
silken swish”
“deep-eyed and deer in
herds”
Whose nest is in a watered
shoot
METER

To identify the poem’s meter, you have to break
each line into smaller units, called feet. A foot
consists of one stressed syllable and one or two
unstressed ones. Look at the type and the
number of feet in each line and combine them to
define the meter, for example, iambic
pentameter.

Types of feet:
 Iamb (reSIST)- consists of an unstressed
followed by a stressed syllable
 Trochee (ABsent)- consists of a stressed
followed by an unstressed syllable
 Spondee (GOAL LINE)- consists of two
stressed syllables
Number of feet:
trimeter: (3)
tetrameter: (4)
pentameter: (5)
^
That
/
time |
^
of
/
year |
^
thou
/
^ /
^
mayst | in me | be
/
hold |
IMAGERY AND FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE


Figurative language communicates meanings
beyond the literal meaning of words. Simile,
metaphor, hyperbole, personification, and
onomatopoeia are some examples.
Figurative language is more descriptive and
evokes a stronger emotion.
 Literal: He was angry
 Figurative: He burned with anger.
TERMS TO KNOW...
Simile
a comparison b/w two
unlike things,
containing the words
like or as
Metaphor
a comparison b/w two
unlike things without
like or as
Personification
a description of an
object, an animal, or a
place in human terms,
Hyperbole
an exaggeration for
emphasis or humorous
effect

My heart is like singing
bird.

The assignment was a
breeze.

This poem has taken in
many victims

I’m so hungry that I
could eat a horse.