Poetry
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Rhythm Rhythm is the beat created by the words in a poem. Rhythm can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration, and refrain.
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Rhythm
Rhythm is the beat created by the words in a poem.
Rhythm can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration, and refrain.
Free Verse Poetry
Unlike metered poetry, free verse poetry does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Does not have rhyme.
It is very conversational- sounds like someone talking to you.
A more modern type of poetry.
RHYME
Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
(A word always rhymes with itself.)
Ex: LAMP STAMP
Alliteration
Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
Narrative
A poem that tells a story
Generally longer than the lyric style of poetry because the poet needs to establish characters and a plot.
Examples of narrative poems
“The Raven”“The Highwayman”“Casey at the Bat”
“The Walrus and the Carpenter”
Refrain
A sound, word, phrase, or line, regularly repeated in a poem.
“Quoth the Raven
‘Nevermore.’”
Ballad
A song or poem that tells a story
The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day,
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
Haiku
A Japanese poem written in 3 lines containing:
5 syllables in the 1st line7 syllables in the 2nd line5 syllables in the 3rd line
An old silent pond…
A frog jumps into the pond.
Splash! Silence again.
Acrostic
A poem in which the first letters of each line form a word or message relating to the subject
Concrete
Words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem.
Poetry from the past
FableA brief story told in prose or poetry that contains a moral or a practical
lesson about how to get along in life.
Folk TaleA story that has no known author, and was originally passed on from one
generation to another by word of mouth.
Nursery RhymeA short poem for children written in rhyming verse and handed down in
folklore
Lyric
A short poemUsually written in 1st person POVExpresses an emotion or an idea or
describes a sceneDoes not tell a story and is often
musical Examples of lyric poetry:
“I heard a fly buzz when I died”- Emily Dickinson
“Break, Break, Break”- Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Dust of Snow”- Robert Frost
“Morning at the Window”- T. S. Elliot
Limerick
Comical poem made of 5 long lines and 3 short lines. The long lines (1, 2, 5) rhyme with each other, and the short lines (3,4) rhyme with each other.
There was an old man with a beard,Who said, “It is just as I feared!Two owls and a hen,Four larks and a wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!”
