Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture. -

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a
speaking picture.-   Simonides
The language beneath the languageThis is
poetry.-   Andrea Pacione
Poetry is being, not doing.-   E.E. Cummings
Poetry is when an emotion has found its
thought and the thought has found words.  -  
Robert Frost

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the N th
power.-   Paul Engle
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RHYME SCHEME
A REGULAR PATTERN OF RHYMING WORDS IN A POEM
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It was many and many a year ago, In the kingdom
by the sea, That a maiden there lived, whom you
may know By the name of Annabel Lee And this
maiden she lived with no other thought Than to
love, and be loved by me.
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SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME

• The Germ by Ogden Nash
• A mighty creature is the germ,
  a
• Though smaller than the pachyderm. a
• His customary dwelling place
  b
• Is deep within the human race. b
• His childish pride he often pleases
  c
• By giving people strange diseases.
  c
• Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
  a
• You probably contain a germ.
  a

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Whose woods these are I think I know.His house
is in the village, thoughHe will not see me
stopping here To watch his woods fill up with
snow. My little horse must think it queerTo
stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods
and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if
there is some mistake. The only other sound's
the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The
woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have
promises to keep, And miles to go before I
sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.
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INTERNAL RHYME
Rhyming words WITHIN lines
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There are strange things done in the midnight
sun By the men who moil for gold The Arctic
trails have their secret tales That would make
your blood run cold The Northern Lights have
seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did
see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarg I
cremated Sam McGee.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious
volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly
napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of
someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber
door." 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping
at my chamber doorOnly this, and nothing more."
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SLANT RHYME
Sounds that are similar, but not exact. For
example home come rain
- again
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The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy
dizzy But I hung on like death Such waltzing is
not easy.
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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in
the soul, And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,
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ASSONANCE
Repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words
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And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright
eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And so, all
the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my
darling my darling my life and my bride, In
the sepulcher there by the sea, In her tomb by
the sounding sea.
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On either side of the river lie Long fields of
barley and of rye.
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ALLITERATION
Two or more words in a line that begin with the
same consonant sound.
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The wind was a torrent of darkness among the
gusty trees. The moon was a ghostly galleon
tossed upon cloudy seas. The road was a ribbon of
moonlight over the purple moor And the highwayman
came riding Riding riding The highwayman
came riding, up to the old inn door.
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in Just- spring when the world is
mud- luscious the little lame baloonman whistles
far and wee
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ONOMATOPOEIA
Words that imitate sounds.
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The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And
made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of
wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew
across it. And the saw snarled and rattled,
snarled and rattled
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Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their
terror tells Of despair! How they clang and clash
and roar! What a horror they outpour In the bosom
of the palpitating air! Yet the ear, it fully
knows, By the twanging And the clanging, In the
jangling And the wrangling Of the bells Of the
bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells
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METAPHOR
A figure of speech that compares two unlike
things saying that one thing is the other.
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Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write
on. Whatever you want to say all day until night
folds it up and files it away . ...
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The Red Glovesby Siv Cedering
Hey, you forgot us!Hurry back. You will find one
of usbehind the baseball diamond,the other
oneby the swing. Without your hands,we are
five-room houseswaiting for our inhabitantsto
come home. We are soft shellsthat missthe
snails that would give themtheir own slowspeed.
We are red wingsthat have forgottenhow to
fly. When you find us,put us on, For like
puppies who warm each otherall night you will
warm usand we will warmyour hands Which must
belostvalentineswithout their redenvelopes.
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SIMILE
The comparison of two unlike things using the
words like or as.
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Quartered, A seed rocks In each tiny
cradle. Like blood, In the air an apple Rusts.
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My love is like a red, red rose Thats newly
sprung in June O, my love is like the
melody Thats sweetly playd in tune
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PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech which gives human qualities to
something that is not human.
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The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits
lookingover harbor and cityon silent
haunchesand then moves on.
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When Sonny Boys mama died He played nonstop all
day, so hard Our backboard splintered.
Glistening with sweat, we jibed rolled the
ball off our Fingertips. Trouble Was there
slapping a blackjack Against an open palm.
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HYPERBOLE
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
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I have the measles and the mumps A gash, a rash
and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is
dry, Im going blind in my right eye.
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Fast breaks. Lay ups. With Mercurys Insignia
on our sneakers, We outmaneuvered the footwork
Of bad angels. Nothing but a hot Swish of
strings like silk Ten feet out. In the
roundhouse Labyrinth our bodies Created, we
could almost Last forever, poised in midair
Like storybook sea monsters.
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IMAGERY
Language that appeals to the senses.
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Yes, the apple tastes of light, Cold
light. Thats it, the apple! What a lively
fruit So much like morning!
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At the center, a dark star Wrapped in white. When
you bite, listen For the crunch of boots on
snow Snow that has ripened. Over it Stretches
the red, starry sky.
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Allusion brief reference to a person, event, or
place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art.
Casual reference to a famous historical or
literary figure or event.
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Christopher didn't like to spend money. He was no
Scrooge, but he seldom purchased anything except
the bare necessities
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As the cave's roof collapsed, he was swallowed up
in the dust like Jonah, and only his frantic
scrabbling behind a wall of rock indicated that
there was anyone still alive".
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As Naomi lay in her bed, delirious with fever,
her mother was a real Florence Nightingale,
giving her water to sip through a straw and
pressing cool cloths to her burning forehead.
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POETRY FORM FORM - the appearance of the words
on the page LINE - a group of words together on
one line of the poem STANZA - a group of lines
arranged together A word is dead When it is
said, Some say. I say it just Begins to
live That day.
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Kinds of Stanzas

• Couplet a two line stanza
• Triplet (Tercet) a three line stanza
• Quatrain a four line stanza
• Octave an eight line stanza

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Meter

• A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• Meter occurs when the stressed and unstressed
  syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in
  a repeating pattern.
• When poets write in meter, they count out the
  number of stressed (strong) syllables and
  unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They
  repeat the pattern throughout the poem.

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An iamb is a metrical foot consisting ofan
unaccented syllable Ufollowed by an accented
syllable /.

• U /
• a gain
• U / U /
• im mor tal ize

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Iambic pentameter
1 2 3
4 5

• U / U / U / U / U
  /
• One day I wrote her name u pon the strand,
• U / U / U / U /
  U /
• But came the waves and wash ed it a way
• U / U / U / U / U /
• A gain I wrote it with a sec ond hand,
• U / U / U / U
  / U /
• But came the tide, and made my pains his prey
• Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, Sonnet 75

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Free Verse Poetry

• Unlike metered poetry, free verse poetry does NOT
  have any repeating patterns of stressed and
  unstressed syllables.
• Does NOT have rhyme.
• Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds
  like someone talking with you.
• A more modern type of poetry.

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LYRIC POEM

• A short poem
• Usually written in first person point of view
• Expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a
  scene
• Do not tell a story and are often musical
• (Many of the poems we read will be lyrics.)

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Haiku

• A Japanese poem
• written in three lines
• Five Syllables
• Seven Syllables
• Five Syllables

• An old silent pond . . .
• A frog jumps into the pond.
• Splash! Silence again.

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Shakespearean Sonnet

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

• A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme
  scheme.
• The poem is written in three quatrains and ends
  with a couplet.
• The rhyme scheme is
• abab cdcd efef gg