Poetry Part Three

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Poetry Part Three

• A Unit on Types of Poetry and Literary Terms

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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
  they repeat the pattern throughout the poem.

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METER cont.

• FOOT - unit of meter.
• A foot can have two or three syllables.
• Usually consists of one stressed and one or more
  unstressed syllables.

• TYPES OF FEET
• The types of feet are determined by the
  arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• (cont.)

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METER cont.

• TYPES OF FEET (cont.)
• Iambic - unstressed, stressed (ex because)
• Trochaic - stressed, unstressed (ex
  breakfast)
• Anapestic - unstressed, unstressed, stressed
• (ex as a rule)
• Dactylic - stressed, unstressed, unstressed
• (ex in-between)

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Be the First to Identify the Meter

• Birdhouse
• Blood creeps
• Low light
• Venom
• Suggest
• Garbage
• Decay
• Happy Birthday
• I saw you everyday and all the while
• My head was hot

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• Eyebrow
• Tunnel
• A violet by a mossy stone
• On the faraway island of Sal-a-ma-Sond
• Yertle the Turtle was king of the pond.
• Whose woods these are, I think I know
• from Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by
  Robert Frost
• When the voices of children are heard on the
  green.

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Examples of Meter

• You blocks! You stones! You worse than
  senseless things!
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• ____________________________
• The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play.
  So we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet
  day.
• _____________________________ from Dr. Seuss
  The Cat in the Hat
• Come live with me and be my love.
• from Marlowes The Passionate Shepherd to
  His Love
• He ordered nine turtles to swim to his stone.
• from Dr. Seuss Yertle the Turtle
• ____________________________________

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METER cont.

• Kinds of Metrical Lines
• monometer one foot on a line
• dimeter two feet on a line
• trimeter three feet on a line
• tetrameter four feet on a line
• pentameter five feet on a line
• hexameter six feet on a line
• heptameter seven feet on a line
• octometer eight feet on a line

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Be the First to Identify the Meter and Feet!

• Picture yourself in a boat on a river with
• tangerine tree-ees and marmalade skii-ii-es.
• From Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by The
  Beatles
• Getting better all the time
• To be or not to be.
• Seasong, seasong, in my earWaves upon the shore
  so near
• The murmuring pines and the forest primeval
• Adapted from Longfellows Evangeline
• Tell me not in mournful numbers

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Identify this poem

• The morns are meeker than they were,
• The nuts are getting brown
• The berrys cheek is plumper,
• The rose is out of town. --Emily
  Dickinson

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Iambic Trimeter (mainly)

• The morns are meeker than they were,
• The nuts are getting brown
• The berrys cheek is plumper,
• The rose is out of town. --Emily Dickinson

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Identify this poem

• Bats have webby wings that fold up
• Bats from ceilings hang down rolled up
• Bats when flying undismayed are
• Bats are careful bats use radar --Frank
  Jacobs, The Bat

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Identify this poem

• Just a small town girl
• Livin in a lonely world
• She took the midnight train
• Going anywhere
• Just a city boy
• Born and raised in South Detroit
• He took the midnight train going anywhere
• Dont stop believin

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Rhyme Scheme and Meter

• There was a young la -dy from York
• Who had a great fond -ness for pork.
• She ate it all day
• And ne -ver could play
• 'Cause her hand would not put down her fork.

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Rhyme Scheme and Meter

•  Twas the night before Christmas, and all
  through the house
• Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
• In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be
  there.      

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My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke

• The whiskey on your breathCould make a small
  boy dizzyBut I hung on like deathSuch
  waltzing was not easy.We romped until the
  pansSlid from the kitchen shelfMy mother's
  countenanceCould not unfrown itself.
• The hand that held my wristWas battered on one
  knuckleAt every step you missedMy right ear
  scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my headWith a palm caked hard
by dirt,Then waltzed me off to bedStill
clinging to your shirt. What is the
meter? How many feet does each line have? The
final answer? Put it all together.
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Challenge

• That's my last Duchess painted on the wall
• The first line of Donnes Last Duchess has
  three kinds!
• THAT'S my / LAST DUCH / ess PAINT / ed on / the
  WALL
• Trochaic spondee iambic pyrric iambic

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Metrical Feet by Samuel Coleridge

• / u / u / u
  /
• Trochee trips from long to short
• u / u / u / u
  /
• From long to long in solemn sort
• / / / / /
  / / / / u
• Slow spondee stalks strong foot yet ill able
• Ever to run with the dactyl trisyllable.
• Iambics march from short to long.
• With a leap and a bound the swift anapests throng.

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Meter and feet worksheet

• Hey, that rhymes!

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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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In free verse the writer makes his/her own rules.
The writer decides how the poem should look,
feel, and sound. Henry David Thoreau, a great
philosopher, explained it this way, ". . .
perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer. Let him step to the music which he
hears, however measured or far away." It may take
you a while to "hear your own drummer," but free
verse can be a great way to "get things off your
chest" and express what you really feel. Here are
some examples   Winter Poem Nikki
Giovanni   once a snowflake fell on my brow and i
loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy
and called its cousins and brothers and a web of
snow engulfed me then i reached to love them
all and i squeezed them and they became a spring
rain and i stood perfectly still and was a
flower  
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BLANK VERSE POETRY

• from Julius Caesar
• Cowards die many times before their deaths
• The valiant never taste of death but once.
• Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
• It seems to me most strange that men should fear
• Seeing that death, a necessary end,
• Will come when it will come.

• Written in lines of iambic pentameter, but does
  NOT
• use end rhyme.

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RHYME

• Words sound alike because they share the same
  ending vowel and consonant sounds.

• LAMP
• STAMP
• Share the short a vowel sound
• Share the combined mp consonant sound

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END RHYME

• A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word
  at the end of another line
• Hector the Collector by Shel Silverstein
• Hector the Collector collected bits of string.
• Collected dolls with broken heads
• And rusty bells that would not ring.

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INTERNAL RHYME

• A word inside a line rhymes with another word on
  the same line.
• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered
  weak and weary.
• The Raven
• by Edgar Allan Poe

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NEAR RHYME

• a.k.a imperfect rhyme, close rhyme
• The words share EITHER the same vowel or
  consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH

• ROSE
• LOSE
• Different vowel sounds (long o and oo sound)
• Share the same consonant sound

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RHYME SCHEME

• A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually end
  rhyme, but not always).
• Use the letters of the alphabet to represent
  sounds to be able to visually see the pattern.
  
• Roses are red aViolets are blue bSugar is
  sweet cAnd so are you. b

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SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME

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

a a b b c c a a
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Rhyme scheme? Meter?

• Whose woods these are I think I know
• His house is in the village though
• He will not see me stopping here
• To watch his woods fill up with snow.
• Robert Frost

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Hector the Collector by Shel Silverstein

• Hector the Collector
• Collected bits of string,
• Collected dolls with broken headsAnd rusty
  bells that would not ring. Pieces out of picture
  puzzles,Bent-up nails and ice-cream
  sticks,Twists of wires, worn-out tires, Paper
  bags and broken bricks.Old chipped vases, half
  shoelaces,Gatlin' guns that wouldn't
  shoot,Leaky boats that wouldn't floatAnd
  stopped-up horns that wouldn't toot.Butter
  knives that had no handles,Copper keys that fit
  no locks,Rings that were too small for
  fingers,Dried-up leaves and patched-up socks.

• Worn-out belts that had no buckles,'Lectric
  trains that had no tracks,Airplane models,
  broken bottles, Three-legged chairs and cups
  with cracks.Hector the CollectorLoved these
  things with all his soulLoved them more than
  shining diamonds, Loved them more than glistenin'
  gold.Hector called to all the people,"Come and
  share my treasure trunk!"And all the silly
  sightless peopleCame and looked...and called it
  junk.
• Check out the rhyme scheme of this poem!

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Casey At the Bat p. 299

• The Pasture p. 196

• A Time to Talk p 196
• See these examples in book for rhyme scheme and
  repetition.

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Sonnet

• A 14-line poem that begins with eight lines and
  is followed by six lines.
• How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett
  Browning
• How Do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
• I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
  My soul can reach,
• when feeling out of sight
• For the ends of being and ideal grace.
• I love thee to the level of every day's
• Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
• I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
• I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
• I love thee with the passion put to use
• In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
• I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my
  lost saints.
• I love thee with the breath,
• Smiles, tears, of all my life and, if God
  choose,
• I shall but love thee better after death.

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SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET

• 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

• 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.

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My Mistress Eyes Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare

• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the
  sunCoral is far more red than her lips' redIf
  snow be white, why then her breasts are dunIf
  hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I
  have seen roses damasked, red and white,But no
  such roses see I in her cheeks
• And in some perfumes is there more delight

• Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
• I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
• That music hath a far more pleasing sound
• I grant I never saw a goddess go
• My mistress, when she walks, treads on the
  ground.
• And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
• As any she belied with false compare.

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The Man in the Glass by Major League Pitcher
Herb Score

• When you get what you want in your struggle for
  self, And the world makes you long for a day,
  Just go to the mirror and look at yourself, And
  see what THAT man has to say. For if it is not
  your father or mother or wife Whose judgment
  upon you must pass.
• The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
  Is the one staring back in the glass. Some
  people might think you are a straight shootin'
  chum and call you a wonderful guy, But the man
  in the glass says you're only a bum,

• If you can't look him straight in the eye. He's
  the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
  For he's with you dear up to the end. And you
  have passed your most dangerous, difficult test
• If the guy in the glass is your friend You may
  fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
  and get pats on the back as you pass. But your
  final reward will be heartaches and tears If you
  have cheated the man in the glass.
• Check out the rhyme scheme here!
• What is the theme of the poem?

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Assignment Take time to do both.

• Write a poem with a rhyme scheme.

• Write a Concrete Poem.
• See examples of past students in folder
• See examples on
• http//www.literacyrules.com/concrete_poems.htm

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Concrete Poetry
dancing and playing and hopping
UP AND DOWN THE STREET.
THE HAPPY BOUNCING BALL CAME
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http//schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us/educators/tec/pr
avda3/concrete.html
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Iama veryspecialshape I havethree points
andthree lines straight.Look through my
wordsand you will see, the shapethat I am meant
to be. I'm justnot words caught in a tangle.
Lookclose to see a small triangle. My anglesadd
to one hundred and eighty degrees, youlearn this
at school with your abc's. Practice yourmaths
and you will see, some other fine examples of
me.
http//members.optushome.com.au/kazoom/poetry/co
ncrete.html
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