1. Ashley Hazel Alexis Simmons Amaris Hudson
Poem Structure
Ashley Hazel
Alexis Simmons
Amaris Hudson

2. Structure is how a poem is written.
the number of stanzas
the number of syllables
how many lines the poem has.
Structure

3. Components That Make Structure
Stanza - a group of lines in a poem.
ex. A sonnet has 14 lines, 3 quatrains (4 line stanzas) and a couplet ( 2 line stanza) at the end.
Iambic pentameter - a line of five feet of iambs (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)
Couplets – stanzas with two rhyming lines.
Tercets - stanzas with three lines.
Quatrains - stanzas with four lines.
Components That Make Structure

4. Examples of Structure

5. Sonnet Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
A sonnet is composed of 14 lines.
There are 3 quatrains
One couplet
The rhyme scheme is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
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. 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, 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.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
Notice in the first quatrain the first line rhymes with the third line and the second line rhymes with the fourth line. This is the rhyme scheme.
Each stanza is highlighted a different color.
There are 4 stanzas (3 are 4 lines and one is 2 lines.
“Shall” is a unstressed syllable and “I” is a stressed syllable therefore this poem is in iambic pentameter.

6. Musical and sweet, the villanelle, like light reflected in a gentle rhyme, moves to the ringing of a silver bell,
Its form creating soft and tender spells. Like the singing of distant silver chimes, musical and sweet, the villanelle
Flows through the heart, and builds a magic spell from sunlight and from shadows, and, sublime, moves to the ringing of a silver bell.
It never arcs into the sharp loud yell of vast pipe organs. Soft its climb. Musical and sweet, the villanelle,
Like a tiny and translucent shell catching sunlight in the summer time, moves to the ringing of a silver bell.
Soft and gentle, tender and so frail, like light pouring through petals of the lime, musical and sweet, the villanelle moves to the ringing of a silver bell.
Villanelle
A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains.
The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain.
The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem's two concluding lines.
Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as:
A1 a A2 / b c A1 / d e A2 / f g A1 / h i A2 / j k A1 A2.

7. Limerick A Caffeinated Life
I've reached beyond those limits that bound And searched around ‘til I finally found The Pinnacle of Reality Is in my utter mortality And so what I've found is simply the ground
Limerick
Limerick poems are five lines that are usually witty and specific.
The rhyme scheme of a limerick poem is AABBA.

8. Identify These Poems and Their Structure

9. How many lines does it have? 19 What type of poem is it? villanelle
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.
Though Wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
How many lines does it have? 19
What type of poem is it?
villanelle
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABAA
Is it in iambic pentameter?
yes
How many quatrains does it have? 1
How many stanzas does it have? 6
What is the stanza of three lines called?
Tercet

10. Four seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of Man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honeyed cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness -to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook: -
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forgo his mortal nature.
What type of poem is this?
sonnet
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
Is it in iambic pentameter?
yes
How many stanzas does it have? 4

11. A poem presenting with rhyme and which follows a rhythm in time need not be what we call a true Limerick at all like a lemon, the cousin of lime. Yet a limerick a lemon can be, you could use a small slice for your tea. Do not use it in fudge and respect that the judge is the man with no writing degree.
Herbert Nehrlich
What type of poem is this?
Limerick
What is the rhyme scheme?
AABBA CCDDC
Is it in iambic pentameter?
yes