Poetry 101You’ll be a poet and

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Types of Poetry

• There are three major types of poetry:• Narrative• Dramatic• Lyric

Narrative Poetry

• Tells a story and has a plot, characters and setting• An EPIC is a long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or heroes• A BALLAD is a songlike narrative that has short stanzas and a refrain

Dramatic Poetry

• Tells a story using a character’s own throughts or spoken statements

Lyric Poetry

• Expresses the feelings of a single speaker about a topic• Lyrical poetry is the most common type of poem in modern literature

Putting it all together…

Poetic form refers to the how a poem is constructed

POETIC FORM

LineMeaning

A single line in a poemExample1 Some say the world will end in

fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.

5 But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.

How many lines are in this

poem?

StanzaMeaning

A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a “paragraph” in a poem

Example 1 Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.

5 We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For his civility.

How many Stanzas are in

this poem?

StructureThe arrangement of lines in a poem

Usually by number of lines

Couplet

MeaningTwo consecutive lines of poetry that usually

rhymeCouple = 2

Example

1 Tiger! Tiger! burning bright,In the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?

5 In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire in thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire?

How many couplets are in

this poem?

QuatrainMeaning

4 lines in a poem; a 4 line stanza Quad = 4

Example 1 Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.

5 We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For his civility.

Sestet

Meaning6 lines in a poem

Example

1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade,10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Rhyme and Meter

1. Rhyme

Meaning The repetition of similar sounds

The sounds are not always exactly the same The spelling does not have to be the same

Example Thinking , linking Bake, cake Frog, hog High, sky Mean, fine

4. End Rhymes

MeaningWhen the rhymes come at the end of the lines

ExampleWhere in this book

do you think I should look?

Every day I look at the sky.

I think of my life and ask myself why.

5. Internal RhymesMeaning

Rhymes that occur within a line of poetry

Example I set my hat on the mat I was a fool who skipped school

6. Rhyme SchemeMeaning

A regular pattern of rhymeLetters are used to represent like sounds

Example ABAB =

Riches I hold in light esteem,

And Love I laugh to scorn;

And lust of Fame was but a dream

That vanished with the morn -

AAAA

AAAA

BABA

BABA

7. MeterMeaning

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry as expressed by syllabication.

Syllabication is the use of stressed and unstressed markings.

POETRY DEVICESFigurative Language

Sound Devices

Poetic Forms