Poetry 101 You’ll be a poet and You know it

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

Line Meaning  A single line in a poem Example 1Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. 5But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. How many lines are in this poem?

Stanza Meaning  A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a “paragraph” in a poem Example 1Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. 5We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. How many Stanzas are in this poem?

Structure The arrangement of lines in a poem Usually by number of lines

Couplet Meaning Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme Couple = 2 Example 1Tiger! Tiger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 5In what distant deeps or skies Burnt 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?

Quatrain Meaning  4 lines in a poem; a 4 line stanza  Quad = 4 Example 1Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. 5We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility.

Sestet Meaning 6 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 Meaning When the rhymes come at the end of the lines Example Where 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 Rhymes Meaning 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 Scheme Meaning A regular pattern of rhyme Letters 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 - A A BABA BABA

7. Meter Meaning The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry as expressed by syllabication. Syllabication is the use of stressed and unstressed markings.

POETRY DEVICES Figurative Language Sound Devices

Poetic Forms